[slurm-users] [External] Re: PropagateResourceLimits

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

On 29-04-2021 18:54, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> It may not for specifically PropagateResourceLimits – as I said, the docs are a little sparse on the “how” this actually works – but you’re not correct that PAM doesn’t come into play re: user jobs. If you have “UsePam = 1” set, and have an /etc/pam.d/slurm, as our site does, there is some amount of interaction here, and PAM definitely affects user jobs.

The "UsePAM" parameter seems to be discouraged in slurm.conf, see Tim 
Wickberg's reply here: https://bugs.schedmd.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4098#c3

On compute nodes one should probably use pam_slurm_adopt in stead.

I've collected some additional information in 
https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_configuration#pam-module-restrictions

/Ole