On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Martin Feller <[email protected]> wrote:
> This approach looks fine to me. We use the same approach in a project I
> work on: All users have individual accounts, but are members of various
> local unix groups. Each group reflects a project.
> Depending on group membership they can access project data being owned
> by that group, or not.

That's reassuring.


> There is another approach where all users share a community credential
> which is augmented with user-specific information (attributes). Authorization
> decisions are then done by callouts which check the the user-specific
> attributes.
> I don't know enough about it to give you detailed information about this,
> but if you are interested i could maybe find documentation pointers or
> forward this to folks who know more about this.
> Or maybe there's even somebody on this list who can provide input on this!

I think it would be interesting to have a document defining all the
main scenarios and explaining which solution would be better to adopt
for each one of them.


> Glad to hear that it works now on most machines. Hard to tell for me
> why this one machine still causes problems. I hope you can figure it out.

I have found that out too: it appeared that on that particular machine
the globus directory had only 740 (rwxr-----) permissions instead of
750 (rwxr-x---). Some student must have messed up with it.

Really many thanks for your help and support, it has been invaluable.


-- 
Marco Lackovic
http://grid.deis.unical.it/lackovic/

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