Re: [Condor-users] Running jobs as nobody on all machines

[Jaime Frey <jfrey@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 8, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Erik Paulson wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 11:22:05AM -0600, Jaime Frey wrote:
> > On Dec 7, 2005, at 4:36 AM, Emir Imamagic wrote:
> > > This is not an option because we want to utilize submit machine as
> > > well.
> > >
> > >
> > > There is also an option of using some other machine to submit job
> > > on the
> > > main submit machine, but we would really want to submit all tasks  
> > > from
> > > one machine.
> > >
> > > Can this be achieved in configuration?
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand the question.
> >
> > Why can't you set UID_DOMAIN to be the same on all of the machines?
> >
> >   -- Jaime
>
> Because in some cases the submit machine will be the same as the
> execute machine.

That's a problem if you're setting UID_DOMAIN to the hostname to  
force jobs to always run as user nobody. I'm wondering whether they  
could just set the same UID_DOMAIN on all machines (possibly with  
SOFT_UID_DOMAIN) to always run the jobs as the submitting user.

> I dont' have to make sure it works, but try putting in your config  
> file
>
> UID_DOMAIN = $(FULL_HOSTNAME)
> SCHEDD.UID_DOMAIN = submitpoint.$(FULL_HOSTNAME)
>
> After you restart (maybe only reconfig), your schedd and startd should
> advertise different values for UID_DOMAIN, even though they are the  
> same
> machine and they read from the same configuration file. If this  
> works, it
> will only work in later 6.7 releases.

Clever.

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