[kepler-dev] noticing strange behavior with SRB Proxy actor

Unni Pillai unni.pillai at nyu.edu
Wed Jun 20 13:40:28 PDT 2007


Oops wrong email, problem is not resolved, jargon mystery continues  
unable to get the file via kepler actor.

On Jun 20, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Unni Pillai wrote:

> Hi Raja
>
> Yes I'm able to Sget the files as Bowner, and NYUIngestMgr and Sls - 
> C shows that all three have all permissions on the file.
>
> Ok it looks like I was using Schmod -r a(ALL) to imply all  
> permissions whereas I should have changed owner using Schmod o flag
>
> Problem is resolved: Basically need to remember to change ownership  
> just setting "a" flag does not allow access via jargon.
>
> Thanks
> Unni
>
> On Jun 20, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Arcot Rajasekar wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Unni
>> 	Are you able to Sget the files as Aowner, Bowner and
>> NYUIngestMgr. Smv just changes the logical location of the file
>> to a new collection-path does not change any access permissions....
>> Check with Sls -C. Schmod allows you to modify access as well as
>> ownership...
>>
>> 	raja
>>
>> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Unni Pillai wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Folks
>>>
>>> Background:  In my SRB managed collections, I have couple of
>>> different collections and srb accounts.  I've an account called
>>> NYUIngestMgr which has all access permissions on two separate
>>> collections (A & B).
>>> Collection A & B are owned by their respective users Aowner and
>>> Bowner.  NYUIngestMgr has all access to both collections.  Using
>>> NYUIngestMgr account I moved(Smv) file from collection A to
>>> collection B.
>>>
>>> Problem:
>>> Now when one of my colleagues uses previously working kepler  
>>> workflow
>>> to do a simple get of files in collection B, he/she receives all
>>> files except the newly moved file.  The kepler workflow is executed
>>> by SRB user Bowner on Collection B.
>>>
>>> Also noticing wackiness when I reconfigure the workflow to use
>>> NYUIngestMgr, the workflow fails miserably stating that NYUIngestmgr
>>> has permissions problem despite successfully downloading file from
>>> CollectionB using Sget with both NYUIngestmgr and Bowner.
>>>
>>> Cursory examination reveals the file to be owned by collection A
>>> still when I run Sls -al on CollectionB as Bowner.
>>>
>>> Is there a Scommand to change owner, so my kepler workflow continues
>>> working as before.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Unni
>>>
>>> P.S. not sure If this needs to be cross-posted to srb-chat
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