Delegated Subgroup Quota Management and Delegated Group User Management #

Any group with purchased storage can have a group folder in both the non-PHI /wynton/group/ area and the PHI /wynton/protected/group/ area, e.g. /wynton/group/boblab/ and /wynton/protected/group/boblab/. In that case, the group quota usage would include group-owned files in both areas. Of course, only members with Wynton PHI access would have access to the data under /wynton/protected/group/.

You can also request to create a subgroup to self-manage the quota for PHI-only data storage (e.g. boblab-phi), and it could be allocated as part of the parent quota.

In addition, responsible parties may request to be delegated responsibility for managing the membership of their groups.

To adjust the quota of a delegated subgroup #

Request the creation and delegation of a subgroup from support@wynton.ucsf.edu.

Once you are the delegated ‘owner’ of the subgroup, you will be able to allocate quota from your group’s parent quota to the subgroup:

  1. Go to CGL Unix Group Maintenance (requires login)
  2. Get the subgroup
  3. Update the allocatedStorage field
  4. Select ‘Submit Changes’
  5. Notification: ‘Success! Group unix_group has been successfully updated!’

This will decrease the allocatedStorage in the parent group by the amount added to the subgroup. When the nightly script runs the quotas of both the parent group and subgroup will get updated. Every night, a script will run which reads that data and uses the allocatedStorage field to actually set the quota for the group.

To adjust the membership of a delegated group #

Delegated responsible parties are able to adjust the memberships of their delegated groups.

Request the delegation of group ownership from support@wynton.ucsf.edu.

Once you are the delegated ‘owner’ of the group, you will be able to adjust the group membership of your delegated group;

  1. Go to CGL Unix Group Maintenance (requires login)
  2. Get the group
  3. In the ‘Members: Available’ field, select a Unix account
  4. Select ‘Append’
  5. The Unix Account should appear in ‘Members: Selected’
  6. Select ‘Submit Changes’
  7. Notification: ‘Success! Group unix_group has been successfully updated!’