[slurm-users] slurm_pam_adapt & configless - set-up

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

Hi Frank,

You must update Slurm to a more recent version due to a configless bug 
that existed in early versions of 20.02.

/Ole


On 02-12-2020 15:50, Heckes, Frank wrote:
> Hello all,
> sorry if this has been asked and/or answered before. I couldn’t find a 
> posting related to my problem.
> 
> I’m using slurm 20.02.01 and use a configless – set-up for all login and 
> compute nodes.
> 
> I set-up slurm PAM on a test node following the instructions at 
> https://slurm.schedmd.com/pam_slurm_adopt.html.
> 
> Without the ‘existance’ of /etc/slurm/slurm.conf (and world readable 
> permissions for all dirs and the file) I see the following error message 
> in /messages/ or /journal/:
> 
> error: s_p_parse_file: unable to status file /etc/slurm/slurm.conf: No 
> such file or directory, retrying in 1sec up to 60sec
> 
> The effect is that it takes awful long to login to the node.
> 
> Once I copy the slurm.conf (actually the thing I tried to avoid 
> utilizing the configless set-up), the ssh login is permit without 
> latency if a job is running and not allowed if no jobs are running for 
> the user trying to access the node. Does anyone know a workaround 
> (besides ‘mine’) or solution to fix this? Many thanks in advance.