Configuring Xsan for Local Authentication

Local authentication is the simplest way to configure your system. It relies on the clients to locally authenticate to their own machines. Once authenticated, they are able to access the SAN volume(s) and are able to read and write to files that their UID (user ID) or GID (group ID) has access to.

There isn't much additional configuring to do on the metadata controllers if you decide to use this authentication scheme. Installing and configuring Xsan Admin will be the final step in you setup. The next chapter describes the specifics in configuring clients for local authentication.