Hi,

I am trying to understand how unix UIDs and GIDs relate to the various
SLURM accounting concepts.

Our unix groups correspond to actual groups around principal
investigators. My current understanding is that I would have to
reproduce all the unix groups as SLURM accounts and then add all the
individual users to SLURM with the appropriate account.

I have the following questions:  

1. Is it possible to map GIDs to SLURM accounts automatically? I.e. can
   I avoid having to add accounts manually for the PIs?   
2. Do all users have to be made known to SLURM via sacctmgr add user?
   I.e. is it possible for SLURM to be aware of users purely via the
   GID/account?

My way off looking at this is probably heavily influence by my
background with IBM's LoadLeveler.  With that, unix groups and users can
be used directly for the accounting.

Cheers

Loris

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Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.)
ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin         Email [email protected]


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