Research Administration Tasks

• 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).
• 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
  • EG (CVS):
    diradm amadd -O auto.cvs foobar 209.87.56.240:/export/cvs/foobar
  • EG (SVN):
    diradm amadd -O auto.svn foobar 209.87.56.240:/export/svn/foobar
  • '-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.
  • mkdir -p $src # EG /export/cvs/foobar or /export/projects/0/r/rnapredict
  • chgrp -R root:$group $src # eg $group being rnapredict or whatever.
  • chmod 2771 $src
  • mkdir -p $src/htdocs # only if they are going to serve web content
  • chmod 2775 $src/htdocs
• Adding CVS repositories
  • See amadd example above, create the /export/cvs/foobar directory.
  • Run: cvs -d /export/cvs/foobar init
  • Run: chmod -R 2770 /export/cvs/foobar
  • Run: chgrp foobar /export/cvs/foobar
• Adding SubVersion repositories
  • See amadd example above, create the /export/svn/foobar directory.
  • Now on nelson, run:
    svnadmin create /var/svnroot/foobar --fs-type fsfs
• 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