Hi, Am 29.11.2011 um 16:00 schrieb Ahmet A. Akin:
> We would like to use Open Grid Scheduler in our newly installed small server > group (Around 10 physical servers with Ubuntu Server 11.10). We only created > users in one single server and at this point we have NOT installed a central > authentication mechanism yet (NIS, Ldap or such). We will use this server as > Master Host and an Execution Host. We would like to use other servers as > Execution Hosts. NFS is installed in all the servers to access their disk > space from the server where users are defined. > > Our question is, for Open Grid Scheduler to operate in this server group, do > we need to create users in all the nodes (probably using NIS or Ldap) ? > Otherwise we just want to allow our users logging in a single server and send > jobs from there. the users must be known on all exechost. E.g. to find their home directory where the job should start. In principle you can copy /etc/passwd to all nodes or sync it using an rsync daemon on the nodes, but often this leads to confusion. It's better to manage them at a central location IMO. -- Reuti > Thanks in advance for any help. I am not an admin or expert on this issue, so > please bear with me. > > Ahmet > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
