[slurm-users] Changing DefaultAccount for user

[Sean McGrath]

Hi Loris,

Not sure if this helps you, sorry if not. I can't answer the specifics
of your query about how sacctmgr works.

Here are the relevant bits from our account setup workflow to add a
users account to an account, the first line, then set their default
account to it.

sbank project useradd -c $cluster -a $project_code -u $user
sacctmgr -i update users cluster=$cluster set defaultaccount=$project_code where user=$user,cluster=$cluster

I've used the `sacctmgr -i update ...` step to change the default
account for users subsequently after accounts have been created.

Hope that helps, sorry if not.

Sean


On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 01:50:01PM +0100, 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?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Loris
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Loris Bennett (Herr/Mr)
> ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email loris.bennett at fu-berlin.de
> 

-- 
Sean McGrath M.Sc

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