[Pvfs2-developers] UID mapping, user-level authentication

[Sam Lang]

On Dec 23, 2006, at 9:52 AM, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I am interested in using a PVFS2-based system in an environment  
> where I need
> both UID mapping (e.g. for heterogeneous system) and user-level
> authentication (e.g. for trust per-user, not per-host).
>
> Are either of these features either implemented or planned for PVFS2?

Hi Wesley,

We don't currently have any code that works with PVFS v.2 and does  
certificate style authentication or authorization based on a uid  
mapping.  There is some research going on in this area, but I'll let  
others comment that are closer to those projects.

>
> I may be interested in either adding this support into PVFS2 as an  
> option,
> or "wrapping" PVFS2 (similar to what SFS <http://www.fs.net/> does for
> NFS), but I'd like to first get a feel for if there is interest in  
> this
> from the PVFS2 developers and/or community.

The SFS project looks interesting.  You might be able to hijack most  
of their core functionality and just replace the parts that use NFS  
with PVFS.  If there is any help we can provide with how PVFS works,  
let us know.

-sam


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