User accounts on osg

[SeanMurray_59b6]

I am struggling with some atlas stuff.

on glite I use yaim and the users are added to /etc/passwd.

I need this for allocating permissions in eos to do my storage for atlas storage tokens.

I could of course hack the functions from yaim to create all the requisite user accounts, but
how is one supposed to do this for ATLAS in OSG ?

I am doing a bestman SE infront of EOS.

Thanks

[AlanSill_0815]

OSG uses GUMS, similar to the way that EGI uses VOBox. See https://twiki.opensciencegrid.org/bin/view/Documentation/Release3/InstallGums for more info.

[SeanMurray_59b6]

Hi Alan

Thanks for the info.

I actually have a gums server running on my storage node gums.chpc.ac.za , the bestman docs said i should either have that or a gridmapfile, and the docs advise the gums option. Its running on the storage redirector for eos as I have no more boxes to run this stuff on.
As far as I can tell gums does not place users in /etc/passwd which I need for eos to create the space tokens.
Am I missing something ?

Sadly, coming from ALICE I fear I have a lot more reading to do ...

[brucellino]

hi @AlanSill_0815 and welcome, from your new friends in Africa.

Thanks for the info, this probably will help a bit. As we are a not off of the OSG radar, we're also not quite sure how to interact with the support mechanisms that might exist. If this could be better solved by opening a support ticket, please let us know how and where to do that