Re: [Condor-users] error on submitting a job

["Dan Swan" <bioinformatics.lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/22/07, Partha sarathi <jinka.partha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi
>
> when i do a condor_submit on a simple job in vanilla i am getting this error
>
> condor_submit vanilla.submit
>
> ERROR: Submitting jobs as user/group 0 (root) is not allowed for security
> reasons.
>
> my vanilla.submit is this
>
> Universe       = vanilla
> Executable     = ./partha
> output  = hello.out
>
> can i not submit job as root...???

No..

It would be quite a catastrophically large security hole if it was allowed.

Dan

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