[slurm-users] --uid , --gid option is root only now :'(

[Chris Samuel]

On Friday, 11 May 2018 4:48:16 AM AEST Christopher Benjamin Coffey wrote:

> What was the reasoning in making this change? Do people not trust the folks
> in the slurm administrator group to allow this behavior? Seems odd.

The change was here:

https://github.com/SchedMD/slurm/commit/52086a9bc0ff2aefbac468e2ec19d2a8687a9797

Which references this bug:

https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4101

where Tim wrote:

# although I'm confident the original intent was never to expose this
# to non-root users, as this was done as a compatibility mechanism
# with Moab/Maui which would have been running as root anyways.

So it appears they didn't think it was being used in this way at all.

All the best,
Chris
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