From 801db860171ce0b8be2f429147775780aa90cce8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludwig Nussel Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:58:14 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Propose to allocate uids from the maximum down Suggestion by Jan Engelhardt to avoid clashes with existing deployments: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2015-04/msg00336.html --- documents/wip/userNaming.txt | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/documents/wip/userNaming.txt b/documents/wip/userNaming.txt index 42658dd..1530844 100644 --- a/documents/wip/userNaming.txt +++ b/documents/wip/userNaming.txt @@ -159,13 +159,13 @@ penetration of NFSv4 may not be sufficiently high to eliminate this need. In an HA fail over environment the potential change in UID of the user on one machine and another UID on the fail over machine may not be tolerated. It is therefore proposed that the created system users for the cloud frameworks -be assigned consistent user IDs across distributions start with 99 and working -down, the order is not of material interest. +be assigned consistent user IDs across distributions start with 4294967293 and +working down, the order is not of material interest. -_oneadmin -> 60001 (system user for openNebula) -_openstack -> 60002 -_cloudstack -> 60003 -_eucalyptus -> 60004 +_oneadmin -> 4294967293 (system user for openNebula) +_openstack -> 4294967292 +_cloudstack -> 4294967291 +_eucalyptus -> 4294967290 Using the proposed "_" prefix for the proposed IDs for the cloud frameworks. From af593c1dae829f2b850cfb3b47e09ab11d0115b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ludwig Nussel Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:59:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Add fixed uid for ceph Needs consistent uid to operate in a cluster: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2015-04/msg00160.html --- documents/wip/userNaming.txt | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/documents/wip/userNaming.txt b/documents/wip/userNaming.txt index 1530844..e3dd3c2 100644 --- a/documents/wip/userNaming.txt +++ b/documents/wip/userNaming.txt @@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ _oneadmin -> 4294967293 (system user for openNebula) _openstack -> 4294967292 _cloudstack -> 4294967291 _eucalyptus -> 4294967290 +_ceph -> 4294967289 Using the proposed "_" prefix for the proposed IDs for the cloud frameworks.