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Status Functionality already exists
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 11, 2020

Mounting Shared drives with restrictive permissions

A way to mount shared drives (CIFS shares) in a capacity that utilises each users existing permissions on the remote share.

Currently the way that we this is set up for CP4D (3.0.1) is utilising defined account credentials that are stored in a secret. The Storage is then created as a PV using these defined credentials. But this user has R/W access to all shared drives - and upon mounting the drives in JupyterLab / Rstudio etc; All users will have the same full permission sets that have been applied to the PV to be mounted into the environment.

i.e.

Have mounts added to JupyterLab / Rstudio as follows:

/external-fileshare/Folder_A

/external-fileshare/Folder_B

/external-fileshare/Folder_C

All of these are currently available, and as the defined account in the secret used for the mounting has full access, and defines the permission set for the mounts as 775/664 all users have 775/664 permissions on the mounts respectively. But, if the users were accessing via their own accounts within the BHP network they would have more restricted Access.

What we want is to be able to provide a scenario more like:

User A would have access to Folder_A,

User B would have access to Folder_B,

User C would have access to Folder_A, and Folder_C

User D would have access to Folder_B

Needed by Date Jan 31, 2021