Special system user account at JLab: gluex

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We have a group account on the JLab CUE for gluex-related tasks that are generally helpful for the entire collaboration.

Some of these tasks are run in cron jobs. By having them in a group account we can have more than one person have access to the crontab and the scripts, and it facilitates having a standard environment, i. e., it frees individuals to change the environment in their private accounts at will and not worry about breaking public jobs.

Another task is creating the standard builds of the offline software. Since all the files are owned by the system account, indiviual users cannot inadvertently overwrite or modify these builds.

The account is called gluex and is a member of the halld unix group. If you would like access to it, send me your ssh public key to the Offline Software Coordinator and it will be placed into the account.