Thank you! I was just getting information out of the logs for you (yes, I got that error message).
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Danny Auble <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Lindsay, > > This is a bug, here is the respected patch for it. It should only hit you > when having private jobs and using the database. > > This will be in the next 2.2 release. > > Thanks for reporting it. Let me know if this doesn't work for you. > > Danny > >> Folks: We have a user trying to use sacct to get his own usage data. > >> He is getting the error message: > >> > >> sacct: error: Access/permission denied > >> > >> In our slurm.conf, we have: > >> > >> PrivateData=jobs > >> > >> Our accounting storage is through slurmdbd, which in turn is using > >> MySQL. In the slurmdbd.conf file, we have: > >> > >> PrivateData=accounts,users,usage,jobs > >> > >> So it isn't surprising that he can't get another user's accounting > >> data, since he isn't running as root, slurm, or a coordinator. But > >> the slurmdbd.conf man page strongly suggests that a user should still > >> be able to get his own accounting data. Is that correct? > >> > >> I briefly turned the debug level to 9 on our slurmdbd instance. > >> Between the messages I found there and some grepping in the source, I > >> am pretty sure we end up calling the function > >> as_mysql_jobacct_process_get_jobs, where I find this fishy code: > >> > >> > >> if (private_data & PRIVATE_DATA_JOBS) { > >> if (!(is_admin = is_user_min_admin_level( > >> mysql_conn, uid, SLURMDB_ADMIN_OPERATOR))) { > >> if (!is_user_any_coord(mysql_conn, &user)) { > >> error("Only admins/coordinators can " > >> "access job data"); > >> errno = ESLURM_ACCESS_DENIED; > >> return NULL; > >> } > >> } > >> } > >> > >> Hmm, no test if the perhaps the calling user is the same as, well, I > >> guess job_cond->userid_list (haven't traced this all through yet), > >> where of course userid_list has only one element... > >> > >> Or do I misunderstand the man page? > >> > >> -- > >> R. Lindsay Todd, PhD email: [email protected] > >> Senior Systems Programmer phone: 518-276-2605 > >> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute fax: 518-276-2809 > >> Troy, NY 12180-3590 WWW: http://www.rpi.edu/~toddr > >> > >> The views, opinions, and judgments expressed in this message are > >> solely those of the author. The message contents have not been > >> reviewed or approved by Rensselaer. > >> > > >
