[slurm-users] Create users

[Paul Edmon]

So the Lua script I posted only does it for people who submit to the 
cluster.  To do it for all users it should just be a simple bash script 
to do that, I don't have one put together though.

-Paul Edmon-


On 09/13/2018 10:29 AM, Eric F. Alemany wrote:
> Hi Paul
>
> You said
>
> “Another way would be to make all your Linux users and then map that 
> in to Slurm using sacctmgr.”
>
> I am curious to know how you do that.
>
> Thank you
>
> Best
> Eric
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> On Sep 13, 2018, at 01:09, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de 
> <mailto:loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> I'd be interested in seeing your Lua submit script, if you're willing to
>> share.
>>
>> Until now I had thought that the most elegant way of setting up Slurm
>> users would be via a PAM module analogous to pam_mkhomedir, the simplest
>> option being to use pam_script.
>>
>> However, given that we do have users who somehow never get round to
>> submitting a job before their HPC access expires, setting up the Slurm
>> account when the first job is submitted seems quite appealing.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Loris
>>
>> Paul Edmon <pedmon at cfa.harvard.edu <mailto:pedmon at cfa.harvard.edu>> 
>> writes:
>>
>>> So useradd is adding a Linux user, which sacctmgr creates a Slurm user.
>>>
>>> What we do is that we run AD for our Linux user managment. We then 
>>> in our job submit lua script look to see if the user has an account 
>>> in slurm and if they don't we create it.
>>>
>>> Another way would be to make all your Linux users and then map that 
>>> in to Slurm using sacctmgr.
>>>
>>> It really depends on if your Slurm users are a subset of your 
>>> regular users or not.
>>>
>>> -Paul Edmon-
>>>
>>> On 9/12/2018 12:21 PM, Andre Torres wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> 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 ?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>>
>> -- 
>> Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
>> ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email 
>> loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de <mailto:loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de>
>>

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