Appendix E. Cephx configuration options


The following are Cephx configuration options that can be set up during deployment.

auth_cluster_required
Description
If enabled, the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster daemons, ceph-mon and ceph-osd, must authenticate with each other. Valid settings are cephx or none.
Type
String
Required
No
Default
cephx.
auth_service_required
Description
If enabled, the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster daemons require Ceph clients to authenticate with the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster in order to access Ceph services. Valid settings are cephx or none.
Type
String
Required
No
Default
cephx.
auth_client_required
Description
If enabled, the Ceph client requires the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster to authenticate with the Ceph client. Valid settings are cephx or none.
Type
String
Required
No
Default
cephx.
keyring
Description
The path to the keyring file.
Type
String
Required
No
Default
/etc/ceph/$cluster.$name.keyring,/etc/ceph/$cluster.keyring,/etc/ceph/keyring,/etc/ceph/keyring.bin
keyfile
Description
The path to a key file (that is. a file containing only the key).
Type
String
Required
No
Default
None
key
Description
The key (that is, the text string of the key itself). Not recommended.
Type
String
Required
No
Default
None
ceph-mon
Location
$mon_data/keyring
Capabilities
mon 'allow *'
ceph-osd
Location
$osd_data/keyring
Capabilities
mon 'allow profile osd' osd 'allow *'
radosgw
Location
$rgw_data/keyring
Capabilities
mon 'allow rwx' osd 'allow rwx'
cephx_require_signatures
Description
If set to true, Ceph requires signatures on all message traffic between the Ceph client and the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster, and between daemons comprising the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
Type
Boolean
Required
No
Default
false
cephx_cluster_require_signatures
Description
If set to true, Ceph requires signatures on all message traffic between Ceph daemons comprising the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
Type
Boolean
Required
No
Default
false
cephx_service_require_signatures
Description
If set to true, Ceph requires signatures on all message traffic between Ceph clients and the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster.
Type
Boolean
Required
No
Default
false
cephx_sign_messages
Description
If the Ceph version supports message signing, Ceph will sign all messages so they cannot be spoofed.
Type
Boolean
Default
true
auth_service_ticket_ttl
Description
When the Red Hat Ceph Storage cluster sends a Ceph client a ticket for authentication, the cluster assigns the ticket a time to live.
Type
Double
Default
60*60
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