If a tenant is connected to two external authorization providers, one of the providers is always set to be the POSIX primary provider. If both providers have POSIX user attributes, then in case of any conflict between POSIX attributes that are retrieved from the providers, the POSIX primary takes precedence over the other provider.
Setting the POSIX primary provider enables you to make sure that conflicting query results are resolved in favor of the provider that stores the correct POSIX attributes for users. For more information about how providers are queried, see Overview of User Management and Authorization.
You can set the POSIX primary provider per tenant when you create or modify a tenant.
Viewing the POSIX Primary Provider
To check which provider is set is the POSIX primary provider per tenant:
In VAST Web UI, open the Tenants page (Element Store -> Tenants) and look at the Posix Primary column.
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If the column is not displayed, click
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to open a dropdown that lists all tenant fields. In the dropdown, select Posix Primary to unhide the column. In VAST CLI, run the
tenant showcommand.
Changing the POSIX Primary Provider via VAST Web UI
In the left navigation menu, select Element Store and then Tenants.
Open the Actions menu for your tenant and select Edit.
In the Update Tenant dialog, go to the Providers tab and select a new POSIX primary provider in the POSIX Primary Provider dropdown.
Click Update to save your changes.
Changing the POSIX Primary Provider via VAST CLI
Run the tenant modify command with the --posix-primary-provider option specified. For example:
vcli: admin> tenant modify --id 2 --posix-primary-provider LDAP