Hi Ramon, This was also discussed over lcg-rollout list earlier - yes, indeed, you have to change software directory permissions, so that the group has right permission on them. The same applies /opt/edg/var/info/ files for software tags. I hope this will be resolved by subsequent YAIM releases... Best regards, Antun ----- Antun Balaz Research Assistant E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://scl.phy.bg.ac.yu/ Phone: +381 11 3713152 Fax: +381 11 3162190 Scientific Computing Laboratory Institute of Physics, Belgrade, Serbia ----- ---------- Original Message ----------- From: Ramon Bastiaans <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 15:24:43 +0200 Subject: Re: [LCG-ROLLOUT] SAM error concerning OPS and DTEAM vo's > Maarten Litmaath, CERN wrote: > > The "sgm" accounts currently must have their "opssgm" group as _primary_ > > group, otherwise the VO software area becomes writable for everyone in the VO. > > > Doesn't one other thing remain? > > Once you change ownership to group opssgm, depending on permissions, > group ops might no longer be able to read de softwaredir. Not sure > how YAIM is supposed to do this by default, but consider the possibilities: > > 1) mode x75 (owner sgmgroup): softwaredir readable by all (private > info exposed?) 2) mode x70 (owner sgmgroup): softwaredir only > useable by sgmgroup (kind of pointless) 3) mode x70 (owner vogroup): > softwaredir writeable by entire vo (not entirely desirable either) > > So which one is the 'lesser evil' here then? > > Or perhaps I'm looking at this the wrong way. > > Is there anything in the VO software that should be read-protected > from other VOs/users? Or is readable by others acceptable? > > Further more the info-tag directories ownership should be changed as > well. I had to do this manually on our CEs. > > Cheers, > - Ramon. > -- > ing. R. Bastiaans > > Systems Programmer / High Performance Computing & Visualisation / > SARA Computing and Networking Services > Kruislaan 415 PO Box 194613 > 1098 SJ Amsterdam 1090 GP Amsterdam > --- > There are really only three types of people: > > Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen > and those who say, "What happened?" ------- End of Original Message -------