Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David McBride said:
> Ideally, we'd revise LCG to use a single set of "grid" pool accounts
> rather than N different sets of VO-specific pool accounts.
> (where N is
> the number of VOs that you support.) Under such a system, you would
> then only need the same number of pool accounts as you have
> jobs queued
> on your cluster, rather than N times that many.
>
> What currently prevents us from doing this?
Probably nothing intrinsic - but only if you can divorce the gid(s) from
the uid, since accounting and file ownership are currently both based on
the unix group. I believe that LCMAPS has a poolgroup plugin which
assigns gids according to the VOMS proxy, so with that you might well be
able to have a single account pool, although I'm not sure of the
details.
Incidentally, if people want their opinions heard on this it would be
better to discuss it in the rollout list, you aren't talking to the
right people here.
Stephen
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