Documentation of the Systems scripts

CLI tool to get user name/project info:

• Accessing to LDAP is done via anonymous binding, however the server is firewalled. It should work only from within FG domain.

• The FG LDAP server ssl certificate is a self-signed one, and the ca certificate file 'FGLdapCacert.pem' is distributed together with the script.

• Python ldap module is required.

• Python 2.7 is recommended. For 2.6, manually install argparse module should be fine too.

• As an example for set up - in india, put the .py and .pem files together in the same directory, then

   module load python_w-cmd2
  

will set up the necessary python environment - load python 2.7 and python ldap module.

• To run:

    ./fg-user-project-info.py -u LDAPUID
  

will print out the project ids;

    ./fg-user-project-info.py -u LDAPUID -t

will include also the project title;

    ./fg-user-project-info.py -u LDAPUID -t -l

will also include the link to the project url in the portal.

    ./fg-user-project-info.py -u LDAPUID -n

will print out only the user full name in the format of:

    GIVENNAME,LASTNAME,UIDNUMBER

The UIDNUMBER is useful only when name ambiguous occurs for two different uid/username.

• You could also integrate the functions into your code and manipulate the output directly in python.

See Also:

http://futuregrid.github.com/systems