[slurm-users] Create users

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

On 12-09-2018 18:21, Andre Torres wrote:
> I’m new to slurm and I’m confused regarding user creation. I have an 
> installation with 1 login node and 5 compute nodes. If I create a user 
> across all the nodes with the same uid and gid I can execute jobs but I 
> can’t understand the difference between user creation with “/useradd”/ 
> command and the “/sacctmgr”/ command
> 
> sacctmgr create account name=test
> 
> sacctmgr create user jdoe account=test
> 
> Also, is there anyway of creating a user at login node and replicate to 
> the compute nodes ? What is the best practice for user creation ?

Perhaps you may find some useful hints about accounts in my Wiki page
https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_accounting

We use some account management scripts which you can find here:
https://github.com/OleHolmNielsen/Slurm_tools/tree/master/slurmaccounts

/Ole