[slurm-users] pam_slurm_adopt not working for all users

Ole Holm Nielsen Ole.H.Nielsen at fysik.dtu.dk
Thu May 27 06:49:54 UTC 2021


Hi Loris,

On 5/27/21 8:19 AM, Loris Bennett wrote:
> Regarding keys vs. host-based SSH, I see that host-based would be more
> elegant, but would involve more configuration.  What exactly are the
> simplification gains you see? I just have a single cluster and naively I
> would think dropping a script into /etc/profile.d on the login node
> would be less work than re-configuring SSH for the login node and
> multiple compute node images.

IMHO, it's really simply to setup hostbased SSH authentification:
https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/SLURM#host-based-authentication

This is more secure on Linux clusters, and you don't need to configure 
users' SSH keys, so it requires less configuration for the sysadmin in the 
long run.

/Ole



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