Remove Yourself as a Website Owner from a PTS group or MCommunity Group

Environment

University of Michigan, including Ann Arbor, Flint, Dearborn and Michigan Medicine campus for active faculty, staff (including temporary employees) and students.

Issue

I want to stop receiving emails about updating or modifying a website, or add someone else who will receive these.

Resolution

All websites that are hosted on ITS AFS will have an AFS PTS Group that provides a list of uniqnames of individuals who have access to upgrade a specific website. Some websites will also have an MCommunity group with members who have access to update the website.

Caution: Some AFS PTS Groups control access to multiple websites. By removing an individual from a PTS group may remove their capability to update other websites.. 

Update the membership of your website’s MCommunity group

• See Managing Your Membership in MCommunity Directory Groups
• Use the Web Application Sign Up (WASUP) service to find out if your website has an SSL certificate and/or a Web Hosting instance. Not all websites have these
• Look for additional MCommunity groups; there may be more than one
• Visit the ITS MCommunity Documentation Directoryfor more information

Update the membership of your website’s PTS group

See Managing Access to AFS Group Directories for Web Sites.

1. Go to https://your-website/cgi-bin/host to get the DocumentRoot directory for your website.
2. Log in to the ITS Login Service using SSH.
3. Run the command: cd /path/to/your/website/documentroot
   1. For example: cd /afs/umich.edu/group/g/groupname/Public/html
4. Run the following command to see which people and groups have write access: fs listacl
5. In the output, look for any entry that says “rlidw” (it may have a “k” or “ka” on the end)
   1. This is the name of the group that has the ability to modify the website
   2. Members of this group will receive emails from ITS

• Use the following command to see who is currently a member of the group: pts membership NAME_OF_GROUP
• Use the following command to remove people from the group: pts removeuser PERSON NAME_OF_GROUP
• Use the following command to add people to the group: pts adduser PERSON NAME_OF_GROUP

Additional Information

Need additional information or assistance? Contact the ITS Service Center.