General Preliminary Notes About Modifying Sponsors Data

These notes relate to adding users to groups and servers using the Xhiered Accounts packages. This controls access to "xhiered" machines as well as those using the CS Active Directory for accounts management.

Required authorization

• Users who need to update accounts need to be in group "sponsor" and group "accounts" on cscf.cs.
• Users who need to manipulate accounts, for example set passwords, in the core region to be in the "accounts" group on core.cs. Similarly for any other region.

Creating Truly New Users (Userids)

Before you can use the sponsors data software to create new accounts for a userid, that userid must be present on cscf.cs.uwaterloo.ca in the file /software/accounts-userids/data/Userids on the machine cscf.cs.uwaterloo.ca. Often, but not always, that happens automatically.

In most cases user names and identification numbers already exist, precreated in WatIAM. In other limited cases, the correct thing to do is create a userid which really should, for various reasons, not be put in WatIAM. And occasionally you need to do things to cause the WatIAM account creation.

Location of Accounts Sponsor files

cd /software/accounts-master/data/sponsors

-- AdrianPepper - 17 Mar 2010

Inclusion

• AdministrativeAccounts
• ExGradStudentAccounts
• IncludeSponsorsDataCreatingUserids
• IncludeSponsorsDataLocation
• IncludeSponsorsDataRequiredAuthorization
• ResearchSponsoredAccounts
• ResearchSponsoredAccountsNew
• TemplateSponsorDataAccountsCollapsed