Hi Lohit (hey Jim & Christof),
Whilst you _could_ trawl your entire filesystem, flip uids and work
out how to successfully replace ACL ids without actually pushing ACLs
(which could break defined inheritance options somewhere in your file
tree if you had not first audited your filesystem) the sy
You will need to do this with chown from the c library functions (could do
this from perl or python). If you try to change this from a shell script you
will hit the Linux command which will have a lot more overhead. I had a
customer attempt this using the shell and it ended up taking
If there are ACLs, then you also need to update all ACLs (gpfs_getacl(), update uids and gids in all entries, gpfs_putacl()), in addition to the chown() call.
Regards,
Christof Schmitt || IBM || Spectrum Scale Development || Tucson, AZchristof.schm...@us.ibm.com || +1-520-799-2469 (T/L: 3
Hello Everyone,
We are planning to migrate from LDAP to AD, and one of the best solution was to
change the uidNumber and gidNumber to what SSSD or Centrify would resolve.
May I know, if anyone has come across a tool/tools that can change the
uidNumbers and gidNumbers of billions of files effici