[slurm-users] pam_slurm_adopt not working for all users

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

On 25-05-2021 19:03, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> On 5/25/21 11:07 AM, Loris Bennett wrote:
>> PS Am I wrong to be surprised that this is something one needs to roll
>> oneself?  It seems to me that most clusters would want to implement
>> something similar.  Is that incorrect?  If not, are people doing
>> something else?  Or did some vendor setting things up with a home-spun
>> script in a dim and distance past happen to everyone else too?
>>
> 
> I'm guessing a lot of clusters don't allow users to connect to nodes 
> directly using ssh, as this allows them to circumvent slurm.

This is the reason why pam_slurm_adopt was introduced years ago!  It 
solves that problem nicely.  Further info is in 
https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/Slurm_configuration#pam-module-restrictions

/Ole