Research Administration Tasks

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  • Adding users
    • As root on yamato, run
      /usr/local/sbin/diradm.superadduser '$username' '$email' '$Fullname'
    • Note that a file named '$username' is created in your current directory with the template filled out for mailing (the same file is displayed onscreen).
    • For now, we must:
export DEBUG=1
DEBUG=1 /usr/local/sbin/diradm.superadduser ...
    • The password you are prompted for at the end is for hood
    • Add the newly-created user to our Research Mailing List
  • Adding groups
    • As root on hood, diradm groupadd
    • same syntax as groupadd(8).
  • Adding or removing users from a group
    • same syntax as gpasswd(8)
    • As root on hood, diradm gpasswd (-a|-d) USERNAME GROUP
  • Adding projects
    • As root on hood:
      diradm amadd -O $mapbase $key $src
    • '-O' means the default mount options for automount.
    • As root on yamato: create the $src directory now, and give it the approriate permissions. chgrp -R it, and chmod 2771 it.
    • Make the directory. mkdir -p $src
    • Set ownership. chgrp -R $group $src
    • Set permissions. chmod 2771 $src
    • If web content is being served: mkdir -p $src/htdocs ; chmod 2775 $src/htdocs

Adding CVS repositories

  • On hood, run diradm amadd -O auto.cvs ${foobar} 209.87.56.240:/export/cvs/${foobar}
    • Replace ${foobar} with the name of the repository
  • On yamato, run (assuming there's a previously created group called ${foobar}:
    • cvs -d /export/cvs/${foobar} init
    • chmod -R 2770 /export/cvs/${foobar}
    • chgrp foobar /export/cvs/${foobar}
    • The chgrp command can instead be a chown command for a single user repository; group name and cvs repository name don't have to match, either.
  • To access CVS repo, use CVS_RSH="ssh" with URL being :ext:${user}@cvs.iat.sfu.ca:/var/cvsroot/${foobar}
  • Users must be in group cvs in addition to ${foobar} to access the repository!

Adding SVN repositories

  • On hood, run diradm amadd -O auto.svn ${foobar} 209.87.56.240:/export/svn/${foobar}
    • Replace ${foobar} with the name of the repository
  • On yamato, run (assuming there's a previously created group called ${foobar}:
    • chmod -R 2770 /export/cvs/${foobar}
    • chgrp foobar /export/cvs/${foobar}
  • On nelson, run svnadmin create /var/svnroot/${foobar} --fs-type fsfs
  • Repo URL is svn+ssh://${user}@cvs.iat.sfu.ca/var/svnroot/${foobar}
  • Users must be in group cvs in addition to ${foobar} to access the repository!

General user management

    • diradm offers almost all regular POSIX commands, sometimes with a few extra frills. The only commands NOT completely implemented are gpasswd and passwd.
  • Gentoo update procedures (eg, how to update without ever messing up a machine).
    • TODO
  • Welcoming new users; email template or typical wording you've used
    • This is in the diradm.superadduser script, as it fills out the template.
To: $FULLNAME <$EMAIL>
Subject: Research account created - $NEWUSER

Hello $FULLNAME,

Your research account has been created.
Username: $NEWUSER
Password: $NEWPASS

Please visit http://research.iat.sfu.ca/network/changepassword.php to change
your password when you receive this email.

For support with the research network, please email:
help@research.iat.sfu.ca

And include a good description of the entire problem and a suitable subject
line.

Please note that this username/password pair is only valid for the SFU Surrey
Research Network, and is NOT tied into the main SFU authentication systems.
  • quotas
    • TODO