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Big Data Bag Utilities
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Add mechanism to avoid creation of $HOME/.bdbag #7

Closed edeutsch closed 8 years ago

edeutsch commented 8 years ago

I am trying to run minid and bdbag from a captive account that doesn't have a proper writable home directory for security reasons. When I run minid, I specify this: minid --config /net/db/projects/BDDS/TPP/.minid/minid-config.cfg and it is totally happy. However, when I run bdbag with this: bdbag --config-file /net/db/projects/BDDS/TPP/.bdbag/bdbag.json it still insists on wanting to create a $HOME/.bdbag directory. But for security reasons, it is not allowed to do this. This is apparently in order to create a keychain.json file. Would you adjust the code so that bdbag can be run without wanting to create a directory in the caller's home directory? This may not always be possible (like in one of my test cases here).

mikedarcy commented 8 years ago

Made some changes to address this in commit a6d25c92c94e2318a72df4a37d3772a752bf1f75.