[slurm-users] AllowGroups for Partition not working?

[Xand Meaden]

You should check whether the relevant group's members can be seen using 
command `getent group <group name>`. If not, you probably need to 
add/change the "winbind expand groups" option in smb.conf.

Xand

On 05/07/2023 17:17, Matthias Leopold wrote:
> Thanks, but unfortunately that didn't help.
>
> Regards,
> Matthias
>
> Am 05.07.23 um 17:59 schrieb Marko Markoc:
>> Hi Matthias,
>>
>> Before you start digging deeper into this, I would recommend 
>> restarting the `slurmctld` service. I've had similar issues where 
>> `scontrol reconfigure` wasn't enough for certain configuration changes.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Marko
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 3:57 AM Matthias Leopold 
>> <matthias.leopold at meduniwien.ac.at 
>> <mailto:matthias.leopold at meduniwien.ac.at>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I'm trying to use AllowGroups for partition configuration in my 
>> Slurm
>>     21.08 cluster. Unexpectedly this doesn't seem to work. My user can't
>>     submit jobs although he is member of group mentioned in AllowGroups:
>>
>>     srun: error: Unable to allocate resources: User's group not
>>     permitted to
>>     use this partition
>>
>>     Slurmctld has been reconfigured with "scontrol reconfigure", user 
>> has
>>     freshly authenticated, "id" for user shows allowed group. My 
>> nodes use
>>     Samba winbind for NSS info.
>>
>>     What's wrong?
>>
>>     thx
>>     Matthias
>>
>>
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