Debian Bug report logs - #884178
base-passwd: uid/gid reservations for OpenStack users/groups (nova,glance,cinder)

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: James Page <james.page@ubuntu.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: base-passwd: uid/gid reservations for OpenStack users/groups (nova,glance,cinder)

Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:00:00 +0000

Package: base-passwd
Version: 3.5.44
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

A number of OpenStack storage integration's rely on shared file systems
(GPFS being my case in point at the moment).  As a result any inconsistency
between deployed machines in the uid/gid allocation of the nova, glance
and cinder users and groups results in some general uglyness with permissions
on the shared file systems being used (like having to use 777).

Please can uid/gid reservations be allocated for nova, cinder and glance.

Thanks

James

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers bionic
  APT policy: (500, 'bionic')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages base-passwd depends on:
ii  libc6              2.26-0ubuntu2
ii  libdebconfclient0  0.213ubuntu1

Versions of packages base-passwd recommends:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.65

base-passwd suggests no packages.

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Message #10 received at 884178@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

To: James Page <james.page@ubuntu.com>, 884178@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#884178: base-passwd: uid/gid reservations for OpenStack users/groups (nova,glance,cinder)

Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 12:14:28 +0000

Control: tag -1 pending

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:00:00PM +0000, James Page wrote:
> A number of OpenStack storage integration's rely on shared file systems
> (GPFS being my case in point at the moment).  As a result any inconsistency
> between deployed machines in the uid/gid allocation of the nova, glance
> and cinder users and groups results in some general uglyness with permissions
> on the shared file systems being used (like having to use 777).
> 
> Please can uid/gid reservations be allocated for nova, cinder and glance.

I have made the following uid/gid allocations:

    64060 | nova              | OpenStack Compute
    64061 | cinder            | OpenStack Block Storage
    64062 | glance            | OpenStack Image

You can start using these immediately, without waiting for a base-passwd
upload.

Regards,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

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