For lustre user management it’s mandatory to have same UID / GID else you couldn’t able to sync directory properly. You can setup NIS Server on ur master node for easy sync of user. NIS setup is easy too.
Thanks & Regards Yasir Israr > On 21-Oct-2017, at 6:46 AM, lustre-discuss-requ...@lists.lustre.org wrote: > > Send lustre-discuss mailing list submissions to > lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > lustre-discuss-requ...@lists.lustre.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > lustre-discuss-ow...@lists.lustre.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of lustre-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Linux users are not able to access lustre folders > (Dilger, Andreas) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 22:47:01 +0000 > From: "Dilger, Andreas" <andreas.dil...@intel.com> > To: Ravi Bhat <ravibh...@gmail.com> > Cc: "Mohr Jr, Richard Frank (Rick Mohr)" <rm...@utk.edu>, Lustre > Discuss <lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org> > Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] Linux users are not able to access > lustre folders > Message-ID: <563528b1-1c94-4374-a427-9617f42a0...@intel.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > >> On Oct 20, 2017, at 09:37, Ravi Bhat <ravibh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Rick >> Thanks, I have created user (luser6) in client as well as in lustre servers. >> But I get the same error as >> No directory /home/luser6 >> Logging in with home="/". >> >> But now I can cd /home/luser6 manually and create files or folders. > > Note that the "luser6" needs to have the same numeric UID/GID as on the > clients. > Copying /etc/passwd to the MDS is the easiest way to do this (it isn't needed > on the OSS nodes). You probably do NOT want to copy /etc/shadow to the MDS, > to prevent regular users from logging in there. > > You can check that this is configured correctly by running on the MDS (as > root): > > /usr/sbin/l_getidentity -d {uid} > > to verify that "uid" is accessible from /etc/passwd (or NIS/LDAP/AD/whatever). > > Cheers, Andreas > >> Regards, >> Konila Ravi Bhat >> >>> On 20-Oct-2017 8:31 pm, "Mohr Jr, Richard Frank (Rick Mohr)" >>> <rm...@utk.edu> wrote: >>> >>> On Oct 20, 2017, at 10:50 AM, Ravi Konila <ravibh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Can you please guide me how do I do it, I mean install NIS on servers and >>> clients? >>> Is it mandatory to setup NIS? >>> >> >> NIS is not mandatory. You just need a way to ensure that user accounts are >> visible to the lustre servers. You could also use LDAP or even just >> /etc/passwd. You?ll probably just want to choose whatever mechanism is >> used on your other systems. >> >> For the purposes of testing, you could always just create the luser1 locally >> on each lustre server to see if things start to work. >> >> -- >> Rick Mohr >> Senior HPC System Administrator >> National Institute for Computational Sciences >> http://www.nics.tennessee.edu >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lustre-discuss mailing list >> lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org >> http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Lustre Principal Architect > Intel Corporation > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > lustre-discuss mailing list > lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org > http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org > > > ------------------------------ > > End of lustre-discuss Digest, Vol 139, Issue 39 > *********************************************** _______________________________________________ lustre-discuss mailing list lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/listinfo.cgi/lustre-discuss-lustre.org