Hi Davide, I was thinking of something like this. Would you mind sharing a modulefile with this group restriction?
Thanks <https://www.njit.edu/> Glenn (Gedaliah) Wolosh, Ph.D. Ass't Director Research Software and Cloud Computing Advanced Research Computing Systems [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> • (973) 596-5437 <tel:(973) 596-5437> A Top 100 National University U.S. News & World Report > On Apr 25, 2022, at 2:42 PM, Davide Vanzo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Glenn, > > The way I solved this issue before was to have a dedicated POSIX group to > assign as secondary group to all the users you want to have access to the > software. > You can then add the group name in the “group” easyconfig parameter to > instruct EasyBuild to change the group ownership of the installed software > accordingly. > Additionally, I modified the generated modules to check if the user loading > the module for a restricted software belongs to the appropriate group. If > not, the environment variables are not set and an error message is printed on > the screen. > > I hope this helps > > > Davide Vanzo > HPC Architect > Azure Specialized Workloads > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > <image001.png> > > > > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Glenn (Gedaliah) Wolosh > Sent: Monday, April 25, 2022 12:44 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [EXTERNAL] [easybuild] Limiting access to licensed software by > groups. > > Hello, > > Some licensed software for example VASP, CASTEP is licensed to research > groups. What is the best practice to limit access to these types of > installation to the licensed users. I could use /etc/groups and directory > permission but I'm not sure that is the best way to do it, > > > > > <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.njit.edu%2F&data=05%7C01%7Cdavide.vanzo%40microsoft.com%7C92d9b8fd4d344d3c103c08da26e7235f%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637865071433716396%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Wl85u386emlIaVV8pO%2BlMolrjK4PxSwamRrFThO%2FO3Q%3D&reserved=0> > > Glenn (Gedaliah) Wolosh, Ph.D. > Ass't Director Research Software and Cloud Computing > Advanced Research Computing Systems > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> • (973) 596-5437 > <tel:(973)%20596-5437> > > A Top 100 National University > U.S. News & World Report
