Jette, Moe wrote on Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 03:24:08PM -0800:
> There was a patch to SLURM v2.2 to support secondary groups.
What is the upgrade path from 2.1.0 to 2.2? I saw notes about updating
slurmdbd first but is it as simple as just shutting down the old
slurmdbd and starting the new version or is there some migration of
the db data/schema?
> I am not aware of any current problems in supporting the AllowGroups
> functionality.
> The following patch can be used to list the uids in each of the groups listed
> in an
> AllowGroups parameter. That should help to show you what is happening. Note
> that the code in this function has several different paths for various
> operating
> systems (AIX, Sun, OS X, Linux), so there might be some issue in support of
> your particular OS.
>
> Index: src/slurmctld/partition_mgr.c
> ===================================================================
> --- src/slurmctld/partition_mgr.c (revision 22674)
> +++ src/slurmctld/partition_mgr.c (working copy)
> @@ -1300,8 +1300,10 @@
> "configured group %s",
> grp_result->gr_mem[i],
> group_name);
> - else if (my_uid)
> + else if (my_uid) {
> group_uids[j++] = my_uid;
> + info("group %s includes uid %u",
> group_name, my_uid);
> + }
> }
> }
> }
> @@ -1327,6 +1329,7 @@
> j++;
> xrealloc(group_uids, ((j+1) * sizeof(uid_t)));
> group_uids[j-1] = pwd_result->pw_uid;
> + info("group %s includes uid %u", group_name,
> pwd_result->pw_uid);
> }
> #ifdef HAVE_AIX
> endpwent_r(&fp);
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Chris Scheller [[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 10:34 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [slurm-dev] AllowGroups
>
> I remember seeing a bug about AllowGroups and secondary groups prior
> to the 2.2 release. Is the AllowGroups functionality completely broke
> in previous versions? I'm running 2.1.0 and no matter primary group or
> not I can't make this work. Every attempt gives me
>
> srun: error: Unable to allocate resources: User's group not permitted
> to use this partition
>
> even thought the user has only one group(but the left over PAG id from
> afs shows as a group) and the AllowGroups is set to that users gid.
>
>
>
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> Chris Scheller | http://www.pobox.com/~schelcj | JID: [email protected]
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> -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
>
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