2016-07-21 6:59 GMT+02:00 Barbara Krasovec <barba...@arnes.si>: > > I re-checked, it is recommended to run slurm controller as slurm user and > slurmd on worker nodes can run under any user.. By default they all run as > root. Slurm user doesn't need login privileges. >
Slurmd needs to fork processes as arbitrary user of cluster, so of course you can use any user if it has CAP_SETUID, CAP_SETGID (maybe CAP_CHOWN?) but normally this means that it is running as root. cheers, marcin
