[Halld-offline] update of list of Hall D CCDB users
Mark Ito
marki at jlab.org
Wed Nov 17 20:06:32 EST 2021
Folks,
I have just updated the list of authorized users on the CCDB. This was
done "by hand." If you notice any anomalies, specifically related to
privileges for writing to the CCDB, please let me know. (I backed up the
database before the update.)
TL;DR
In the past the updates were done nightly by a cron job. About a year
ago, the Computer Center switched from using NIS to using getent to
broadcast the /etc/group information to all nodes at JLab. So no more
ypcat command. That broke the update script which used ypcat. As long as
the list of users does not change then this does not affect us. After a
year, the list of new users has grown considerably and an update was
necessary. So I did an update just now, in a one-off fashion.
To restore the cron-job update scheme, we will need a new release of
CCDB. Not tonight.
-- Mark
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