Dear GPFS Experts,

I have two clusters, A and B where cluster A owns file system GPFS and cluster 
B owns no file systems.

Cluster A is mixed Linux/Windows and has IMU keeping consistent UID/GID maps 
between Windows and Linux environment resulting in a very high ID range 
(typically both UID/GID starting at 850000000)

Cluster B remote mounts file system GPFS with UID/GID=0 remapped to 99. This is 
fine for preventing remote root access to file system GPFS. However, cluster B 
may have untrusted users who have root privileges on that cluster from 
time-to-time. Cluster B is "part-managed" by the admin on cluster A, who only 
provides tools for maintaining a consistent UID space with cluster A.

In this scenario, what can be done to prevent untrusted root-privileged users 
on cluster B from creating local users with a UID matching one in cluster A and 
thus reading their data?

Ideally, I want to remap all remote UIDs *except* a small subset which I might 
trust. Any thoughts?

Cheers,
Luke.

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Luke Raimbach
IT Manager
Oxford e-Research Centre
7 Keble Road,
Oxford,
OX1 3QG

+44(0)1865 610639

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