perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

["Garnizov, Ivan (RRZE)" <>]

Hi Zhi-Wei Lu,

 

Could you please check if your command for adding a new user is:

 

/usr/sbin/adduser -M --shell /bin/false -G psadmin" <<username>>

 

And then setup password and then restart httpd server.

 

It works for me!

 

Of course you have the official and supported way of: /opt/perfsonar_ps/toolkit/scripts/nptoolkit-configure.py

 

That will do much more in terms of toolkit configuration!

 

Best regards,

Ivan

 

From: [mailto:] On Behalf Of Zhi-Wei Lu
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 1:08 AM
To:
Subject: [perfsonar-user] add perfsonar webadmin user

 

Hi all,

 

From time to time, I would like to add additional user into the “psadmin” group for web admin.  Unfortunately, the process have been rocky.

 

I add a new unix user by using “useradd”, create a password for this user, and I then put the user in the

/etc/group for group psadmin.

 

I then restart the “httpd” process, when I try to access the admin page on the web 9 out of 10 time, it would fail.  The httpd ssl_error log indicates that “user xyz not allowed access”, even though the user is in the /etc/group file for group psadmin, which satisfies the apache rule.

 

Is there anything else I need to do to make “perfsonar” work? Restarting Cassandra?

 

Zhi-Wei Lu

IET-CR-Network Operations Center

University of California, Davis

(530) 752-0155