perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Bill Owens <>]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 09:13:15AM -0700, Andrew Lake wrote:
>    Hi Bill,
>    On CentOS 7 we no longer use system accounts in the psadmin group with
>    mod_auth_shadow in apache to create web user accounts. Instead it uses a
>    htpasswd file and doesn’t link it to the system accounts at all. I think
>    nptoolkit-configure.py should properly add the web user to the htpasswd
>    file, but is it giving you an error? or does it act like it completes but
>    then you can’t login?

No, it threw this error:

[owens@bss532 ~]$ sudo /usr/lib/perfsonar/scripts/nptoolkit-configure.py 

perfSONAR Toolkit customization script

1. Change Timezone
2. Manage Users
0. exit

Make a selection: 2
  
Welcome to the perfSONAR Toolkit user administration program.
This program will help you administer users.
You may configure any of the options below with this program: 
    1. Add a new user
    2. Delete a user
    3. Change a user's password
    0. exit
Make a selection: 1
 
Enter the user whose account you'd like to add. Just hit enter to exit: psweb
Should this user be able to login via SSH? [yes] no
Should this user be able to login to the web interface? [yes] yes
adduser: group 'psadmin' does not exist
Error: couldn't add user psweb

You may configure any of the options below with this program: 
    1. Add a new user
    2. Delete a user
    3. Change a user's password
    0. exit


I think that's really just a documentation problem, though; the instructions 
need to be changed to tell you to run the new script instead.

Now I'm fighting with the machine not wanting to run any regular bandwidth 
tests; I can get bwctl to work manually, and I can test against it with my 
3.5 box, but it won't initiate anything. Oh, and after the most recent reboot 
it won't allow me to log into the web interface anymore. So I'm going home 
for the day ;)

Bill.