[slurm-users] Create users

[Ariel Balter]

Does anyone know how to change email settings?


On 9/13/2018 7:59 AM, Damien François wrote:
> Just to add my 2c to the discussion: at our site, we use a utility we 
> wrote [1] that monitors our LDAP and triggers Ansible playbooks upon 
> addition or modification in the list of users. We have playbooks to 
> setup the different directories for the user in the many filesystems, 
> along with the respective quotas, setup SSH keys, and register to 
> Slurm. To register to Slurm, we use a Slurm user module for Ansible [2].
>
> damien
>
> [1] https://github.com/damienfrancois/slufl2
> [2] https://github.com/dylex/ansible-hpc/blob/master/slurm.py
>
>
>
>> On 13 Sep 2018, at 16:41, Paul Edmon <pedmon at cfa.harvard.edu 
>> <mailto:pedmon at cfa.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> 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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