1/ The "-A $USER" option seems to be needed to make config-gfarm work. Apparently the "admin_user" field is not filled in case not using it (we already had this issue before using "-S"):
paravent-14:/tmp/lcudennec/test> config-gfarm --prefix /tmp/lcudennec/test/ -S
created /tmp/lcudennec/test//etc
created /tmp/lcudennec/test//var/gfarm-ldap
created /tmp/lcudennec/test//etc/init.d
created /tmp/lcudennec/test//var/run
created /tmp/lcudennec/test//etc/gfarm-ldap
created /tmp/lcudennec/test//etc/gfarm2.conf
created /tmp/lcudennec/test//etc/gfmd.conf
created /tmp/lcudennec/test//etc/gfarm-ldap/gfarm.schema
created /tmp/lcudennec/test//etc/gfarm-ldap/initial.ldif
created /tmp/lcudennec/test//etc/gfarm-ldap/slapd.conf
created /tmp/lcudennec/test//var/gfarm-ldap/DB_CONFIG
add initial metadata
created /tmp/lcudennec/test//etc/init.d/gfarm-slapd
created /tmp/lcudennec/test//etc/init.d/gfmd
add gfarm-slapd service: skipped
Starting OpenLDAP: slapd.
add gfmd service: skipped
Starting gfarm server: gfmdgfmd: /tmp/lcudennec/test//etc/gfmd.conf: 8: missing argument
gfarm_server_initialize: missing argument
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config-gfarm success
paravent-14:/tmp/lcudennec/test> more etc/gfmd.conf
metadb_server_host paravent-14.rennes.grid5000.fr
metadb_server_port 10601
ldap_server_host paravent-14.rennes.grid5000.fr
ldap_server_port 10602
ldap_base_dn "dc=rennes,dc=grid5000,dc=fr"
ldap_bind_dn "dc=rennes,dc=grid5000,dc=fr"
ldap_bind_password "oGUXCIoKRXiEheHAgHknn=NVvnjCXwmNu6r9pjS0tjt"
admin_user
auth enable sharedsecret *
sockopt keepalive
local_user_map /tmp/lcudennec/test//etc/usermap
2/ the "local_user_map" field is an absolute link. Is it possible to use a relative link as we cannot predict, on the metadata server side, where this file will be stored on the gfsd node? (We do not assume to have a shared NFS)