Using Salt/Ansible/Chef/Puppet/Engine is another way to get it done.
Define your users in states/playbooks/whatever and don't bother with
painful LDAP or ancient NIS solutions.
--
Jeff White
HPC Systems Engineer
Information Technology Services - WSU
On 04/10/2017 09:39 AM, Alexey Safonov wrote:
Re: [slurm-dev] LDAP required?
If you don't want to share passwd and setup LDAP which is complex task
you can setup NIS. It will take 30 minutes of your time
Alex
11 апр. 2017 г. 0:35 пользователь "Raymond Wan" <rwan.w...@gmail.com
<mailto:rwan.w...@gmail.com>> написал:
Dear all,
I'm trying to set up a small cluster of computers (i.e., less than 5
nodes). I don't expect the number of nodes to ever get larger than
this.
For SLURM to work, I understand from web pages such as
https://slurm.schedmd.com/accounting.html
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that UIDs need to be shared
across nodes. Based on this web page, it seems sharing /etc/passwd
between nodes appears sufficient. The word LDAP is mentioned at the
end of the paragraph as an alternative.
I guess what I would like to know is whether it is acceptable to
completely avoid LDAP and use the approach mentioned there? The
reason I'm asking is that I seem to be having a very nasty time
setting up LDAP. It doesn't seem as "easy" as I thought it would be
[perhaps it was my fault for thinking it would be easy...].
If I can set up a small cluster without LDAP, that would be great.
But beyond this web page, I am wondering if there are suggestions for
"best practices". For example, in practice, do most administrators
use LDAP? If so and if it'll pay off in the end, then I can consider
continuing with setting it up...
Thanks a lot!
Ray
