Hi! At my workplace, I am in charge of data storage for my research group. These files are placed in a *NIX file server, and users authentication is through my corporate AD. Files are owned by individual users; other users from the same group can only read the files. As primary research data files, we basically expect these to be available forever.
This system has worked well till several of my colleagues left. Their user accounts were promptly deleted from the corporate AD, creating a situation where their files are owned by invalid/unknown users. My workplace does not have a policy to handle this situation, so I am wondering how everyone handles this age-old problem. Any advice? I can only think of these 2 methods: 1) create local users to replace the AD user. There no confusion about the person who generated the data long time past, and institutional knowledge can be preserved. However, this becomes a management headache. 2) create a general user to own all these files. Simple solution, at the expense of institutional knowledge. 3) request for the accounts to be locked, not deleted. I think Security will scream... Any advice? Thanks! Regards, Junhao _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
