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Manage access

Access in project spaces is controlled:

  • to the ENTIRE project via the cernbox-project-<projectname>-writers and -readers e-groups (you can check their membership at https://egroups.cern.ch): see manage project space.
  • to individual folders (and their sub-folders) via the Authenticated Share method in CERNBox (in a Web browser).

All the folders of the project can be shared by Authenticated Share and Link Share by members in the -admins e-group ONLY. This group includes by default the Service Account that was designated when creating the project space, which owns all the project's files. The admin user logs into his/her CERNBox, goes to the project in 'Your projects', and can then share a file/folder.

Check (via LXPLUS) which e-groups and users have access to the project space

Admins for the project can check who can access the project space by running the following commands on LXPLUS:

  • Login with the project Service Account, or your own account (if you are an admin for the project space).

  • Run the command:

eos root://eosproject.cern.ch attr ls /eos/project/<initial>/<project-name>/<path-to-folder>

Example:

[swanee@lxplus701 ~]$ eos root://eosproject.cern.ch attr ls /eos/project/s/swanee/plots
sys.acl="egroup:cernbox-project-swanee-readers:rx,egroup:cernbox-project-swanee-writers:rwx+d,u:99090:rwx+d"
sys.allow.oc.sync="1"
sys.eos.btime="1584701732.657186956"
...

It is possible to define the EOS_MGM_URL=root://eosproject.cern.ch variable beforehand. In which case, you would not need root://eosproject.cern.ch in the EOS command.

In the example above:

  • egroup:cernbox-project-swanee-writers:rwx+d means that users in this e-group can read, write, execute and delete files/folders in this folder
  • egroup:cernbox-project-swanee-readers:rx means that users in this e-group can read files/folders in the folder
  • u:99090:rwx+d means that the user with userid 99090 can read, write, execute, delete files/folders in the folder. The user was shared this folder using the Web interface.

To find out which user has userid 99090, use the command getent passwd <userid>

$ getent passwd 99090 ebocchi:*:99090:2763:Enrico Bocchi,31 2-010,+41227674203,:/afs/cern.ch/user/e/ebocchi:/bin/bash