On 11/02/16 12:31, jupiter wrote:

> I am running slurm on CentOS 6. One thing I've just noticed is that the
> slurmctld is running under the user slurm but the slurmd is running
> under the root.

slurmd has to run as root as it must be able to start processes as the
users whose jobs are to run.

http://slurm.schedmd.com/quickstart_admin.html

# The slurmd daemon executes on every compute node. It resembles
# a remote shell daemon to export control to Slurm. Because slurmd
# initiates and manages user jobs, it must execute as the user root.

All the best,
Chris
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