Authentication
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+NOTE: If Ceph is installed locally on the {pve} cluster, the following is done
+automatically when adding the storage.
+
If you use `cephx` authentication, which is enabled by default, you need to
provide the secret from the external Ceph cluster.
# ceph auth get-key client.userid > cephfs.secret
----
-If Ceph is installed locally on the {pve} cluster, this is done automatically
-when adding the storage.
-
Storage Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Authentication
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+NOTE: If Ceph is installed locally on the {pve} cluster, the following is done
+automatically when adding the storage.
+
If you use `cephx` authentication, which is enabled by default, you need to
provide the keyring from the external Ceph cluster.
# /etc/pve/priv/ceph/<STORAGE_ID>.keyring
----
-If Ceph is installed locally on the {pve} cluster, this is done automatically
-when adding the storage.
-
TIP: Creating a keyring with only the needed capabilities is recommend when
connecting to an external cluster. For further information on Ceph user
management, see the Ceph docs.footnoteref:[cephusermgmt,{cephdocs-url}/rados/operations/user-management/[Ceph User Management]]