NAME

dirperm: permissions and file/directory creation NCM component

DESCRIPTION

Object to set permissions and ownership of files and directories. Will create directories if they do not exist (with the proper permissions). Useful, e.g., to give every pool-user a ".globus" directory in its $HOME, or to create a bunch of home directories for poolaccounts on a non-CE machine.

If the list initdir is set, then files in those directories will be copied to the created directory. They will be given the same ownership as the directory.

When creating a file, all of the parent directories must already exist.

RESOURCES

/software/components/dirperm/paths

A list of files/directories to manage with this component. Each entry in the list must be of the structure_dirperm_entry type which has the following fields:

  • path

    String representing full path of configured file/directory.

  • owner

    String representing ownership, of form user or user:group.

  • perm

    String containing octal permissions to enforce.

  • type

    String, either 'd' for directory or 'f' for file.

  • initdir

    Optional list of strings representing full paths to directories.

    If the target is a directory, this can be used to prepopulate the directory by copying files from multiple sources. This is particularly useful for home directories.

EXAMPLES

"/software/components/dirperm/paths" = list(
    nlist(
        "path",    "/export/home/alice002/.globus",
        "owner",   "alice002:alice",
        "perm",    "0700",
        "type",    "d",
        "initdir", list("/etc/skel")
    ),
 );