The HECToR Archiver is now Read Only. Please use the UK Research Data Facility (UK-RDF) for long term data storage. Instructions are provided below to help you list and retrieve data from the Archiver.
This section provides instructions on managing access to your archives by other users and groups.
Grant Access to your archives with cresgrant
This command will grant and revoke access to your archives to other users and groups in the system.
Command usage
The cresgrant command takes one of the following forms:
cresgrant -u [user] | -g [group] cresgrant -r -u [user] | -g [group] cresgrant -l
with the options:
- -l
- list access grants
- -u
- grant/revoke access to a user
- -g
- grant/revoke access to a group
- -r
- revoke access grant (specified by other options)
- -w
- who has granted access to me
Examples
List my access grants
archie$ cresgrant -l Type User/Group Name ----- -------------------------------- Group y01 Group y02 User barney
List who has granted access to me
user@nid00012:/work/x01/x01/user> cresgrant -w The following users have granted you access to their archives: auser buser
Grant access to a user
user@nid00012:/work/x01/x01/user> cresgrant -u auser Granted access to user "auser".
Grant access to a group
user@nid00012:/work/x01/x01/user> cresgrant -g y09 Granted access to group "y09".
Revoke access for a user
user@nid00012:/work/x01/x01/user> cresgrant -r -u auser Revoked access for user "auser".
Revoke access for a group
user@nid00012:/work/x01/x01/user> cresgrant -r -g y09 Revoked access for group "y09".
cresgrant errors
Errors you may see when using cresgrant.
No granted access:
user@nid00012:/work/x01/x01/user> cresgrant -w Nobody has granted you access to their archives.
Unknown user:
user@nid00012:/work/x01/x01/user> cresgrant -u cuser User "cuser" does not exist.
Revoking access for user who has not had access granted:
user@nid00012:/work/x01/x01/user> cresgrant -r -u buser You have not previously granted access to user "buser".
