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

[Michael Gutteridge]

Ah, you are creating a *new* association:

sacctmgr create user cseraphine account=test1

HTH

 - Michael

On Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 13:47 Chip Seraphine <cseraphine at drwholdings.com>
wrote:

> 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?
>
>
> --
>
> Chip Seraphine
> Grid Operations
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