perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Bill Owens <>]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:37:44AM -0400, Bill Owens wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:05:57AM -0400, Bill Owens wrote:
> > I've now run into an inability to create a web admin user because the 
> > psadmin group doesn't exist. I'm tempted to create it manually but I feel 
> > like something must have gone wrong earlier and I don't want to bypass 
> > that if there's a step that I missed. 
> 
> Looks like this group should be added during setup, but there's a check to 
> see whether the system is running RHEL7, and if so it is skipped.
> 
> from perfsonar-toolkit.spec:
> 
> %post
> # Add a group of users who can login to the web ui
> %if 0%{?el7}
> touch /etc/perfsonar/toolkit/psadmin.htpasswd
> chgrp apache /etc/perfsonar/toolkit/psadmin.htpasswd
> chmod 0640 /etc/perfsonar/toolkit/psadmin.htpasswd
> %else
> /usr/sbin/groupadd psadmin 2> /dev/null || :
> %endif
> /usr/sbin/groupadd pssudo 2> /dev/null || :
> 
> I've run the groupadd command manually and we'll see how things go from 
> there...

Okay, now I see; the old nptoolkit-configure.py script seems to be 
deprecated, and we should use add_psadmin_user instead?

Bill.