[NLPL Task Force (A)] [rt.uio.no #3197744] urgent: add Notur user ‘nivre’ to ‘hpc-nlpl’ group

[Stephan Oepen via RT]

we cannot change file or directory ownership, i think.

an interesting problem in a collaboratively maintained installation, in
fact.  could you find all files owned by that uid (probably aaron or yan)
and donate them to joakim ‘nivre’)?

oe


On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 12:29 Thomas Röblitz via RT <hpc-drift at usit.uio.no>
wrote:

> Updated, such that group can write. Can you try again?
>
> Just noted that the directory is owned by user 200172 which doesn't exist
> anymore (? otherwise there should be a username). I suggest, that you try
> to change that or ask us to do it if necessary.
>
> Thomas
>
> On 2018-11-29 11:11:07, joakim.nivre at lingfil.uu.se wrote:
> > I still don’t seem to be able to create new directories for data (see
> > below). It seems that only the owner, not the group, has write
> > permissions. And without being owner, I cannot change the permissions,
> > can I?
> >
> > Joakim
> >
> > -bash-4.1$ pwd
> > /projects/nlpl/data/parsing/universal_dependencies
> > -bash-4.1$ mkdir ud-treebanks-v2.2
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `ud-treebanks-v2.2': Permission denied
> > -bash-4.1$
> >
> >
> > On 29 Nov 2018, at 10:13, Thomas Röblitz via RT <hpc-
> > drift at usit.uio.no<mailto:hpc-drift at usit.uio.no>> wrote:
> >
> > Joakim should have access to the group now.
> >
> > [857]thomarob at login-0-1 ~ # groups nivre
> > nivre : users hpc-nlpl nn9447k notur
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> > On 2018-11-28 21:46:35, oe wrote:
> > colleagues,
> >
> > the unix group ‘hpc-nlpl’ controls write access to data and software
> > maintained by the NLPL project, and we have not yet found a solution
> > for me (as the group owner) to add non-UiO users to that group.  the
> > few times we have had to do that in the past, thomas fixed it behind
> > the scenes (so i had forgotten about this loose end in our
> > infrastructure :-).
> >
> > could you please add ‘nivre’ (a Notur user) to that group for us?
> >
> > with thanks in advance, oe
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