[slurm-users] Remote submission hosts and security

[Jeff White]

On 12/06/2017 11:22 AM, Michael Jennings wrote:
> On Wednesday, 06 December 2017, at 08:23:10 (-0800),
> Jeff White wrote:
>
>> A Web portal is exactly why I am doing this.  The remote server is a
>> Web server running some software that expects to pass a script to
>> sbatch directly.  So the SSH stuff you mention doesn't apply.
> I'm not sure I agree with you there.  :-)
>
> The "sbatch" executable it finds and runs doesn't *have* to be SLURM's
> sbatch.  It could easily be a wrapper script/program that could do
> literally anything, including SSHing to the cluster with
> passphraseless SSH keys and executing a predefined program -- possibly
> sbatch, or maybe another wrapper -- to submit the job.  The wrapper
> could feed in the file on stdin, set environment variables, etc., all
> within your ability to control (since the exact command which is
> executed is guaranteed by authorized_keys).
>
> Seems like a pretty straightforward way of accomplishing what you're
> trying to do, with a little coding work on your part....
>
> Michael
>
I'm not interested in workarounds.  To be honest this method seems odd 
and I don't want to allow SSH in that way.  I'm not interested in coding 
either.  My question was if Slurm can do this or not.