Hi
You are right that there is no documentation (yet) about that, albeit on any IT system (even your personal machine) as a best practice you should not play with your ${HOME} permissions (some common software like `ssh` can complain with non-standard ones).
Good point!
It’s just that in my experience (on clusters of various sizes, and personal machines) its the permissions of Baobab which are the non-standard ones. Not excluding that some other systems might have the same approach as Baobab by default.
While 755 on home seemed quite customary, reasonable, and at least it is usually perfectly fine with ssh as you well know.
The thing which is unfortunate is that the Baobab home permissions are enforced in a just a little bit non-transparent and not documented way, which frankly costed us some time (though with little focus).
But if that’s the approach, very well, it is compatible with our needs, as long as we are aware of it.
On Baobab and Yggdrasil we use ISIs (thus AD) UID/GIDs whenever is possible, so if you ask for a shared space please tell us if you already have an ISIs/AD GID and/or if you need this group outside HPC (and we will ask for an ISIs/AD group for you).
Very well, I think we prefer ISIs GID then. Should we proceed with @Pierre.Dubath creating it, or is it possible (and should we?) ask the HPC team by email to do the same thing (with Pierre in CC, of course)?
Thanks!
Volodymyr