Hi Luca,

I do not understand how exactly wozld the suggested change impact my work
on the stat100* machines, but I know that I need both

- user analytics-privatedata, and
- user goransm

to be able to read and write any file in any directory in my home directory.

Thanks.

Best,
Goran



On Tue, Mar 3, 2020, 19:06 Luca Toscano <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> as part of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246578 we'd like to enforce
> some basic permissions via puppet to all the home directories on analytics
> clients (stat/notebooks) of analytics-privatedata-users to
> $user:analytics-privatedata-users 750. For example, let's pick my home,
> /home/elukey:
>
> - it will get permissions elukey:analytics-privatedata-users (owner:group)
> - it will get permissions set to 750
>
> I am talking about only the home directory, not its content (so the
> permissions will not be applied recursively). In this way we'd like to
> protect PII data that people might copy from Hadoop to the local file
> system, allowing only users from analytics-privatedata-users to read
> between each other home dirs.
>
> If for any reason this change impacts your work, please let us know in the
> aforementioned task. In theory this should not affect anybody, and keep our
> data a little bit more safe :)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Luca (on behalf of the Analytics team)
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