Problems with etc/rasmgr.auth

[Dimitar Misev]

There are several issues with this file:

1. rasserver does not throw an error if it doesn't have write access to $RMANHOME/etc
2. the behavior with the new rasmgr is unintuitive: when you change a rasdaman user (e.g. new password for rasguest), this file gets written to $RMANHOME/etc/rasmgr.auth.713f3f57-bd3b-4211-ada6-bf88b49f81f1 or some similarly random bits appended. To make it effective, it needs to be renamed to $RMANHOME/etc/rasmgr.auth (as I figured out with some guesswork). I think what it should rather do is, make a backup of an existing rasmgr.auth, and then write the new rasmgr.auth.

[Peter Baumann]

• user documentation: Installation Guide 5.10
• etc/ write access: should be fixed indeed
• unintuitive behavior: a new auth file gets written if for whatever reason the existing one cannot be overwritten. Should not happen, but does so if bullet 2 above fires. Maybe we should document this indeed.

[Dimitar Misev]

Replying to pbaumann:

• user documentation: Installation Guide 5.10

Searching for rasmgr.auth in the latest installation guide doesn't show up anything for me.

[Peter Baumann]

right, rasmgr.auth is not mentioned explicitly, it is meant to be transparent. Maybe we should add a mentioning, but let's do it after the passwd dust has settled.

[Dimitar Misev]

@dkamov: to test this you need to create a user or change a user or so. Please check in the Installation & Administration Guide of rasdaman on how to do this.