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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