Re: [Condor-users] what user should I install condor under to create a pure submit node

[Rahul Nabar <rpnabar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Ochtrup, Carsten
<carsten.ochtrup@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Rahul,
>
> The condor user is the user condor (the system) will run as, if you spawn the daemons as root. Simply speaking, by this way the processes are not running as root, but are still able to act on behalf of another user.
>
> If you start condor as a non-root user, this user is not be able to act on behalf another user. In your example message, it was not able to act as user "foouser".

Thanks Ian and Carsten! That works.

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Rahul