Re: [Ceph-maintainers] statically allocated uid/gid for ceph

[Tim Serong <tserong@suse.com>]

On 04/16/2015 03:14 AM, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Ken Dreyer <kdreyer@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> On 04/14/2015 09:21 AM, Sage Weil wrote:
>>> I think we still want them to be static across a distro; it's the 
>>> cross-distro change that will be relatively rare.  So a fixed ID from each 
>>> distro family ought to be okay?
>>
>> Sounds sane to me. I've filed https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/524 to
>> request one from Fedora.
> 
> I have now requested the same for Debian. If the request is granted we
> will most likely get the uid/gid 64045. Maybe others could use the same.
> It seems that only Debian has a range of reserved ids for this purpose.
> I would expect Ubuntu to use the same id, but that's up to them finally.

Fedora has rejected the request for a static UID (see
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/524#comment:16), and I haven't made
much progress on the SUSE front.  I did suggest everyone just do what
Debian does ;) but both Fedora and SUSE people pointed out that the 64K
range isn't safe to claim, what with not being specifically reserved.

I did make one small bit of progress - I've added the ceph user and
group to rpmlint on openSUSE Factory
(https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/303537) so at least the SUSE
build won't bitch if files specified in any of the packages are owned by
ceph:ceph.

Regards,

Tim
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Tim Serong
Senior Clustering Engineer
SUSE
tserong@suse.com