Control: user guardi...@namespace.hadrons.org
Control: usertags -1 accountspace-rift

Hi!

On Tue, 2017-12-12 at 12:14:28 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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

These seem extremely prone to collide with local user/group names. :(

Could we make all new additions use the BSD _ prefix pattern for system
users/groups. And ideally, but perhaps it's too late, even rename these
recent additions too?

Thanks,
Guillem

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