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Status Submitted
Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 25, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Support CES-S3 accounts without access to creating new buckets

We want to give access to existing datasets through S3 and NFS, and want a mapping of one NFS share for each S3 bucket. Some S3 accounts should only have readonly access to buckets (through bucket policy), and we don't want them to be able to create new buckets where they would then be able to add new data. noobaa-cli already support "--allow_bucket_creation false" and setting --new_buckets_path '/dev/null' to disallow bucket creation -- please support this with mms3 account command as well.

noobaa-cli account update --name <account_name> --allow_bucket_creation false  --new_buckets_path '/dev/null'

Idea priority High

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