Orion Poplawski <[email protected]> writes:

>> I can't remember the details of how it works, but if you don't
>> authenticate, then another job running on the host can use any
>> credentials the one concerned can read, which is likely to give access
>> to examine someone else's home directory.  Without authenticating job
>> submission there doesn't seem to be much point in using a Kerberized
>> file system.
>>
>
> The token should be installed only readable by the owner of the job,
> so only that user has access to those credentials.

But without authentication, which you can't currently stack on "afs"
security, anyone can run a job as that user, potentially on the same
node <http://arc.liv.ac.uk/SGE/howto/sge-security.html>.

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