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Workspace Storage Scale (formerly known as GPFS)
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 29, 2018

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user/role based permission control in Spectrum Scale

So far, in Spectrum Scale, all user management is done by OS, e.g. by /etc/passwd, by AD or LDAP. However, for administration, there is only one role: the user root or the common user with sudo permission.

No matter it's the user root, or it's the common user with sudo configured permission, the password of the user root or sudo admin has to be shared for all administration.

Considering that, the ESS storage is managed by storage department but the fileset or one file system is managed by its business owner, the customer requires user/role management in Spectrum Scale level. e.g. configure userA as cluster admin and this user can do some cluster-level management operations(e.g. mmaddnode, mmdelnode, mmchcluster etc), configure userB as the file system 1 admin, the userB can create fileset/snapshot or delete fileset/snapshot against file system1; configure userC as the filesetA owner of file system 1, the userC can only do filesetA related operations(e.g. set quota, create snapshot etc).

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 30, 2020

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Product functionality

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - IBM Spectrum Scale
    Product - Spectrum Scale (formerly known as GPFS) - Public RFEs
    Component - Technical Foundation

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Aug 6, 2018

    This capability is available through the GUI or the REST API. Customers can also create a CLI equivalent by wrapping REST API commands, e.g. with curl.

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