linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 00/14] ceph: support idmapped mounts

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Message-ID: <bb20aebe-e598-9212-1533-c777ea89948a@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:29:01 +0800
From:   Xiubo Li <xiubli@...hat.com>
To:     Aleksandr Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>
Cc:     Gregory Farnum <gfarnum@...hat.com>,
        Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, stgraber@...ntu.com,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>,
        Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/14] ceph: support idmapped mounts

[...]

 > > >
 > > > I thought about this too and came to the same conclusion, that 
UID/GID
 > > > based
 > > > restriction can be applied dynamically, so detecting it on mount-time
 > > > helps not so much.
 > > >
 > > For this you please raise one PR to ceph first to support this, and in
 > > the PR we can discuss more for the MDS auth caps. And after the PR
 > > getting merged then in this patch series you need to check the
 > > corresponding option or flag to determine whether could the idmap
 > > mounting succeed.
 >
 > I'm sorry but I don't understand what we want to support here. Do we 
want to
 > add some new ceph request that allows to check if UID/GID-based
 > permissions are applied for
 > a particular ceph client user?

IMO we should prevent users to set UID/GID-based MDS auth caps from ceph 
side. And users should know what has happened.

Once users want to support the idmap mounts they should know that the 
MDS auth caps won't work anymore.

Thanks

- Xiubo