Figured out.  Nothing ceph related.  Someone created multiple ACL entries
on a directory and ls -l had correct numbers but getfacl showed its real
colors.  Group write permissions were disabled at that level.

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 7:10 PM Yan, Zheng <uker...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 5:47 AM Alex Litvak <alexander.v.lit...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Cephers,
> >
> >
> > I am trying to understand how uid and gid are handled on the shared
> cephfs mount.  I am using 14.2.2 and cephfs kernel based client.
> > I have 2 client vms with following uid gid
> >
> > vm1 user dev (uid=500) group dev (gid=500)
> > vm2 user dev (uid=500) group dev (gid=500)
> >
> >
> > vm1 user tomcat (uid=996) group tomcat (gid=995)
> > vm2 user tomcat (uid=990) group tomcat (gid=990)
> >
>
> ACLs only record IDs of users/groups. group tomcat is different on vm1/vm2
>
> >
> > on both machines user tomcat is added to a group dev.
> >
> >
> > Directory /webcluster/data is a kernel cephfs mount and has permissions
> visible on both clients as
> >
> > rwxrwxr-x dev dev  /webcluster/data
> >
> > also
> >
> > rwxr-xr-x root root /webcluster
> >
> > So it is my understanding that on both vms I should be able to
> successfully run
> >
> > touch /webcluster/data/foo as user tomcat.
> >
> > However,  on vm2 I get permission denied when I attempt to write a file
> in /webcluster/data.
> > When I change uid and gid of tomcat on vm2 to match those on vm1, then I
> successfully can write into  /webcluster/data.
> >
> > As on both machines user tomcat is a member of group dev and group dev
> is allowed to write in the directory, why do the uids of the group members
> need to match across network?
> >
> >
> > I tried research it on my own and failed to find a good explanation.
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your help,
> >
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