[slurm-users] Adding an association to a different account

[Chip Seraphine]

TL,DR:  How do you associate an existing user with a second account?

I have a user who has a default account, and I want to give them the ability to run jobs in a different account for billback purposes.  My understanding is that this is what associations are for, but I can’t seem to figure out how to tie a user into a “secondary” account with an additional association.  This question gets asked from time to time in online forums, but the answer that comes back is invariably to change the default account, which I expressly do not want to do.

I have something like this:
$ sacctmgr show assoc tree 'format=account%-33,user%-15,parentname%-15'
Account                           User            ParentName
--------------------------------- --------------- ---------------
root
root                             root
gridadmins                                       root
  gridadmins                      cseraphine
  gridadmins                      srv_gridops
test1                                            root
$ sacctmgr show user cseraphine format=User,DefaultAccount%30,Account%30
      User                       Def Acct                        Account
---------- ------------------------------ ------------------------------
cseraphine                     gridadmins

User “cseraphine” has default account “gridadmins”.  So far so good.  Now I want to give cseraphine the ability to optionally charge jobs against “test1” without changing any default behavior (as with “srun -A test1 ….”).    The sacctmgr man page tells me I cannot “create” an assoc, I must do it my modifying a user However:

$ sacctmgr modify user where user=cseraphine set account=test1
Unknown option: account=test1
Use keyword 'where' to modify condition

The “where” hint suggests that I am making a syntactical error and I’ve tried all the obvious permutations (modifying the account instead of the user, += instead of =, moving the clauses around etc), but without joy.  Does anyone know how to do this?


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Chip Seraphine
Grid Operations
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