On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:30:42AM -0400, George Wm Turner alleged:
> TORQUE/PBS (and its scheduler; MAUI/MOAB) runs as root and spawns jobs  
> in the name of the user; it's the responsibility of the SysAdmin.

Ditto.  Terms like "middleware" and "systems software" have fuzzy definitions
and you can argue all you want about it.

At the end of the day, it's the security boundary that you care about.

(though, maui doesn't need to run as root.  Mine runs as user "maui")


-- 
Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin
University of Southern California

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