Re: [Beowulf] User Support Access to User Files?

2016-09-21 Thread Gavin W. Burris
Hello, Ryan. We have a 'mimic' command for such support persons. A support person may mimic any user in the same ${department}, as long as they are in the ${department}-admin unix group. This is enabled with a sudoers config line per dept and an SSH key per user restricted to the local

Re: [Beowulf] User Support Access to User Files?

2016-09-20 Thread Nicole Fontenot
> > Does anyone have a particularly polished way of offering access to user files to non-root users for the purposes of job troubleshooting or the like? acl[0] would do the job nicely, just make sure the filesystem in question is mounted with the acl option then, a user experiencing problems can

[Beowulf] User Support Access to User Files?

2016-09-20 Thread Ryan Novosielski
Does anyone have a particularly polished way of offering access to user files to non-root users for the purposes of job troubleshooting or the like? We have scientists that work with users to find out the more software-based/user-error type of reasons that jobs won’t run (and sometimes to