Hi Matevz,
Sounds like a resonable option. I'd like to see the detailed proposal on
this and what the side-effects are.
Andy
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, Matevz Tadel wrote:
> OK, I see ... thanks Andy, Lukasz.
>
> The use-case I was testing this for comes from the UC-Grid and Pacific
> Research Platform projects where the plan is that every member organization
> exports work areas of local researchers through xrootd and this then gets
> accessible on every other site (optionally through caching proxies). People
> can then send the results back through xrootd to their local system ... so
> being able to manage the space both as a local user or through xrootd is the
> key to making this work.
>
> Being able to configure the server to ignore ownership mask from the client
> for directory / file creation would allow us to do that with posix acls. I
> guess it should be an oss option.
>
> Andy, do you think this makes sense?
>
> Matevz
>
> On 8/20/15 10:05 AM, Andrew Hanushevsky wrote:
>> Additionally, Andreas has a uid/gid plugin that allows xrootd to run each
>> thread
>> using the uid/gid of the connected client. So, this needs to be consistent
>> in
>> this case.
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, Lukasz Janyst wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015, at 09:05 AM, Matevz Tadel wrote:
>>>> Given how xrootd servers do authorization the whole unix permission thing
>>>> doesn't make super-much sense anyway. Or does it in some other context?
>>>
>>> While it's true that in the "native" XRootD context the unix permissions
>>> make little sense, 3rd-party plugins may interpret them differently. I
>>> would be cautious before changing this.
>>>
>>> Lukasz
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