Durai, There is no inheritance in "AllowAccounts". You need to specify each account explicitly.
There _is_ inheritance in fairshare calculation. On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 2:17 PM Brian Andrus <toomuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > As I understand it, the parents are really meant for reporting, so you > can run reports that aggregate the usage among children. Useful for a > chargeback model. > > As far as permissions, that is on a per account basis, regardless of > hierarchy. > > Just because a parent can go to the bar, doesn't mean their child can :) > > Brian Andrus > > On 1/15/2021 6:38 AM, Durai Arasan wrote: > > Hi, > > As you know for each partition you can specify > > AllowAccounts=account1,account2... > > > > I have a parent account say "parent1" with two child accounts "child1" > > and "child2" > > > > I expected that setting AllowAccounts=parent1 will allow > > parent1,child1, and child2 to submit jobs to that partition. But > > unfortunately only parent1 is able to submit jobs. > > > > For parent1,child1 and child2 to submit jobs I have to specify all > > accounts individually: > > AllowAccounts=parent1,child1,child2 > > > > Am I doing something wrong or is this the way slurm is set up? Does it > > not make sense that when a parent account is added then the child > > accounts should automatically also be able to submit jobs to that > > partition? > > > > Thanks, > > Durai > > > > > >
