Re: Bug#669275: ITP: mkgltempdir -- Utility to create a directory owned by the gLExec target user

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 19:26 +0200, Dennis van Dok wrote:
> * Package name    : mkgltempdir
>   Version         : 0.0.3
>   Upstream Author : Nikhef Grid Security Middleware Team <grid-mw-security@nikhef.nl>
> * URL             : http://wiki.nikhef.nl/grid/GLExec_TransientPilotJobs

The link to the source code on that page is broken, fwiw.

>  The gLExec program takes care of switching the user identity based
>  on grid credentials. Some use cases, in particular multi-user pilot-job
>  frameworks, may have a need to securely create a temporary directory
>  owned by the target user. The mkgltempdir utility takes care of creating
>  such a directory.

I suspect ftp-master are unlikely to approve a new package for a single
7kb shell script.  Is there not an existing package where this could
fit?

Regards,

Adam