Creating Pool Accounts With LDAP

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The list of valid users of the NDPF is kept in a central LDAP directory, currently hosted on trog.nikhef.nl. This directory contains both the "local" users as well as all poolaccounts and all automount map entries. The structure of the directory is:

 + dc=farmnet,dc=nikhef,dc=nl
   |
   + ou=Managers
   + ou=LocalGroups (contains all groups!)
   + ou=LocalUsers
   + ou=Poolaccounts
   + ou=automount
     |
     + ou=auto.home
     + ou=lcgprod
       |
       + ou=auto.sedata
       + ou=auto.share
       + ou=auto.stage
       + ou=auto.sedata2

The ou=Poolaccounts entry contains the list of all pool accounts, without any further hierarchy. Each account is named by its uid, and is of objectClass "posixAccount". For each account named here, there should be a corresponsing entry in the ou=pool,ou=auto.home,ou=automount branch of the tree as well (of objectClass "automount").

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Creating a new VO

To use the scripts, login on the fileserver "hooimijt.nikhef.nl", and make sure that /export/perm/adm/bin is in your path (it contains all the relevant scripts), or go there.