On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:18:17PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm the maintainer of the package slurm-llnl. This package provides SLURM > which is a batch queuing system for clusters. In a cluster environment > the package needs to be installed on all the nodes of the cluster. > It usually works with one "central manager" which assigns jobs to all > the execution hosts. > > The SLURM "central manager" daemon doesn't need root privileges and > therefore I create a "slurm" user which is the owner of the process > and of some directories. > > The problem is that using a non privileged user only works if the user > has the same uid on all the node of the cluster, even if they are only > execution hosts. > To ensure this I need that the SLURM user created on package > installation has the same uid on any system.
I have allocated uid/gid 64030 for slurm. This will be documented in base-passwd 3.5.14, but you may begin using it without waiting for that. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
