Lab storage

Ask to read lab storage

For people working with the lab who need to read data kept in the lab’s storage on the Wayne State grid, /rs/rs_grp_oschome. Name the folders you need, or ask for all of it, and say what for. The lab lead decides. An approval lets your grid account read those folders, and everything inside them, and nothing more: you cannot change or delete anything there, and other folders stay closed.

Two letters and four digits, the one you sign in to the grid with. Your AccessID followed by @wayne.edu. One a line, eight at most, each written as the part after /rs/rs_grp_oschome/. Ask the person you work with which folders hold what you need. Instead of named folders: everything in /rs/rs_grp_oschome that the lab group may read. Folders that belong to other people stay as their owners set them. Tick it only if the person you work with says you need all of it. Up to 500 characters.

What this page sends: the fields above (your AccessID, name, WSU e-mail, the folders and what you need them for) to the lab’s own access service. The lab lead reads them to decide, and the service keeps them, with the decision, until the lab lead removes them. The connection you send from is kept only as a hash for up to two days, to limit repeats. Nothing is sent to C&IT. Support

What happens next

  1. The lab lead reads the request and approves the folders you named, approves some of them, or says no. The lab lead lets you know; the service does not e-mail you.
  2. Once you are approved, it can take a while to reach the grid. Then sign in to the grid as you usually do and go straight to a folder by its full path, for example ls /rs/rs_grp_oschome/shared/data. If you asked for named folders, listing /rs/rs_grp_oschome itself stays closed to you; that is expected.
  3. If you still cannot read a folder the next day, tell the lab lead.

This takes the place of asking C&IT to add you to the lab’s Unix group: the lab lead approves folders here instead. You can send the same request again to see where it stands, or to ask for more folders.