[slurm-users] Changing a user's default account

[Joseph Francisco Guzman]

Hi Chip,

You don't have to delete the user, because a user can be in multiple accounts. Here's what I'd do:


  1.  add the user to account B
  2.  make account B their default
  3.  remove them from account A

We often swap out user accounts like this.

Best,

Joseph


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Joseph F. Guzman - ITS (HPC)

Northern Arizona University

Joseph.F.Guzman at nau.edu

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Thanks.  Guess adding/deleting is the way to go then – I was hoping not to lose user history, but alas.


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This should work:

sacctmgr add user someuser account=newaccount # adds user to new account

sacctmgr modify user where user=someuser set defaultaccount=newaccount # change default

sacctmgr remove user where user=someuser and account=oldaccount # remove from old account

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I have a user U who is in association with account A, and I want to change that to account B.   The obvious thing does not work:

$ sacctmgr modify user where user=”U” set defaultaccount=”B”
Can't modify because these users aren't associated with new default account “B”…

OK, fair enough.    But I can’t find a good way to meet this requirement!   “sacctmgr create assoc” does not seem to be a thing.   Googling around I see a lot of wags deleting and recreating the user in this situation, which I definitely do _not_ want to do.

How does one change the account that a user is tied to?


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Chip Seraphine
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