Re: [HTCondor-users] umask of scratch spaces in 8.0

[Tim Theisen <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

I am sorry to say that it did not make it into 8.0.6.

I have created a ticket to backport this for the 8.0.7 release: 
https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/tktview?tn=4208

...Tim

On 02/12/2014 02:54 AM, Mark Calleja wrote:
> On 18/12/2013 23:42, Zachary Miller wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 11:07:21AM +0000, Mark Calleja wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We're currently running 7.8 on our Linux based campus grid, and I'm
> > > investigating shifting up to 8.0. However, a 'feature' that was 
> > > added in 7.9.2
> > > would cause us grief, namely that the permissions have been 
> > > tightened to 0700.
> > > I realise and accept why this has been done, but it breaks a 
> > > web-based job
> > > monitoring tool of ours, which relies on at least group permissions 
> > > being set
> > > to allow this. Looking at ticket 
> > > https://htcondor-wiki.cs.wisc.edu/index.cgi/
> > > tktview?tn=4016,56 it is apparent that we're not the only people to 
> > > get caught
> > > out by this, and I like the solution there, but that only seems to 
> > > make it into
> > > the current testing 8.1 stream. Are there any plans to backport this 
> > > into the
> > > 8.0 stream, or do we have to wait for 8.2 to be released before 
> > > upgrading from
> > > 7.8?
> > It's a small enough change, with enough "popular demand", that I will 
> > backport
> > it into the stable series for the next release.
>
>
> Hi Zach,
>
> Did this change make it into the newly released 8.0.6? I just 
> downloaded it and tried setting :
>
> JOB_EXECDIR_PERMISSIONS = WORLD
>
> on the execute host, but the permissions remain 0700. Or have I missed 
> something? We really need this functionality if we're to consider 
> moving from 7.8 to 8.0.
>
> Best regards,
> Mark

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