All,

Steve, thanks for pointing it out. I'll change the default permission  
apporpriately.

The permission issues with Greg's homedir was a bug of IBRIX  
filesystem (that was fixed couple weeks ago).
We had a bug on IBRIX FS that doesn't honor umask (unix def permission).

I've made changes to the license.dat (/software/matlab/r14sp3/etc/ 
license.dat). It will now go to unixgen1 to check out symbolic math  
toolbox.
Not sure about the rest. unixgen1 does not have Database Toolbox. The  
question is whether we should use unixgen's or not.

As of now, the symbolic tool works fine now. Could we test the rest  
of Matlab's ?
I needed to put in a hack to make the 32-bit run on that 64-bit OS.  
Let me know if you experience any weirdness.

I change the default umask for everybody to be 077. This seems to be  
the safest option. As the cluster becomes public, I totally should  
audit this more often.

Thanks,
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On Mar 3, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Stephen E. Wright wrote:

> Speaking of home directories, I notice that we're using a default  
> of letting everyone see each other's home directory.  I think we  
> should use 750 (owner rwx, group rx, others none) or 700 (owner- 
> only) as the default and let owners add permissions if they desire.
>
> Particularly strange is that Greg's home directory is *writeable*  
> (i.e., deletable) by all.
>
> - Steve