Print

Print


With Steve's help, we've just run some cernatschool.org jobs at
Liverpool, including some with CVMFS-deployed software - huge thanks!

Bon weekend all! Tom


On 31 January 2014 13:46, Sam Skipsey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 31 January 2014 12:37, Stephen Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On 01/31/2014 10:48 AM, Sam Skipsey wrote:
>>>
>>> On 30 January 2014 17:25, sjones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2014-01-30 17:17, Ewan MacMahon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> All of them. Ewan
>>>>
>>>> We really need to get DPM hooked into the mainstream security (ARGUS?).
>>>> Or
>>>> get the mainstream security hooked into DPM.
>>>
>>> So, there *is* a mechanism for hooking DPM into the "mainstream"
>>>
>>> security. Unfortunately, it has had packaging/release problems (as DPM
>>> is in EPEL now, but ARGUS is not, and so DPM itself could not release
>>> the mechanism as a package, since it would violate the EPEL
>>> requirements by depending on a package that was not in SL or EPEL...).
>>
>>
>> Can the "mechanism" be released in the form of an optional
>> ARGUS plug-in that can be combined with the EPEL version of DPM?
>>
>
> So, as I said, it's currently with the ARGUS developers! ;)
>
>>
>>> I note, however, that DPM's "VO support" is actually simpler than
>>> ARGUS (et al)s, as it does not rely upon poolaccount <-> user mappings
>>> for Users or VOs. ;)
>>
>>
>> It's fine and dandy if ARGUS has too much functionality,
>> because sledgehammers can crack nuts pretty easily...
>>
>
> Oh, indeed.
>
> Sam
>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> --
>> Steve Jones                             [log in to unmask]
>> System Administrator                    office: 220
>> High Energy Physics Division            tel (int): 42334
>> Oliver Lodge Laboratory                 tel (ext): +44 (0)151 794 2334
>> University of Liverpool                 http://www.liv.ac.uk/physics/hep/