[slurm-users] Changing DefaultAccount for user

[Ole Holm Nielsen]

Hi Loris,

First you add the user to one or more other Slurm accounts, something like 
this:

$ sacctmgr add user xxx account=yyy

Then you can redefine the user's default account:

$ sacctmgr modify user where name=xxx set defaultaccount=yyy

Here is an example from our cluster where the user is in two accounts:

$ sacctmgr -rp show user WithAssoc xxx
User|Def 
Acct|Admin|Cluster|Account|Partition|Share|Priority|MaxJobs|MaxNodes|MaxCPUs|MaxSubmit|MaxWall|MaxCPUMins|QOS|Def 
QOS|
xxx|camdvip|None|niflheim|camdcmr||5|||||1000|||high,normal|normal|
xxx|camdvip|None|niflheim|camdvip||5||500|||1000|||high,normal|normal|

I hope this helps.

/Ole

On 11/23/21 13:50, Loris Bennett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Occasionally I need to change a default account and I struggle every
> time, possibly because my expectations are incorrect.
> 
> However the messages and the manpage seem to me unhelpful:
> 
>    $ sacctmgr show user alice accounts
>          User   Def Acct     Admin
>    ---------- ---------- ---------
>         alice   boblab        None
> 
>    $ sacctmgr add user user=alice defaultaccount=carollab cluster=bigiron
>     Nothing new added.
> 
>    $ sacctmgr show user alice accounts
>          User   Def Acct     Admin
>    ---------- ---------- ---------
>         alice   boblab        None
> 
> What does "Nothing new added" mean?
> 
> In the manpage for sacctmgr it says:
> 
>    DefaultAccount=
>        System wide default account name
>        Must be defined on the first occurrence of the user.
> 
> I find the third line unclear, but I assume it means
> 
>        Must be specified when the user is created (and cannot be modified
>        subsequently)
> 
> Deleting the user and recreating with the desired defaultaccount is the
> only way I have managed change the default account.
> 
> Is this really the only way to achieve this?