Chris Jewell <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi All,
>
> I was wondering if anybody had any info on using Grid Engine with
> Kerberos authentication?

In the absence of anyone speaking who has been doing it:  There's was
stuff about it on the old list, searchable via gridengine.markmail.org,
including reference to Friebel's SGE workshop talk about the setup at
DESY.  unfortunately the proceedings have been taken down, and I've
failed to archive them, although I have a copy of that one.  The
software it refers to is at ftp://ftp.ifh.de/pub/unix/gnu/perl/modules/
but I haven't used it.
 
There's also a system reported at
http://workshop.openafs.org/afsbpw10/talks/wed_3/hautreux_kerberos_hpc.pdf
which has integration for SLURM, but I don't know how difficult it would
be to integrate it with GE.

Of course, the Kerberos security model is basically incompatible with
arbitrary length unattended batch jobs, experimental sessions, etc., and
you need to have control of your authentication and resource
infrastructure to make this sort of thing work.  That doesn't mean
there's anything wrong with the model, but a capability system is
probably more appropriate for such applications.
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