Re: [HTCondor-users] Wading into Windows HTCondor - what's the most important thing you wish you'd known?

[John M Knoeller <johnkn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I did some digging on this one, and It appears that HTCondor doesn't load the registry for run-as-owner because we can't prevent the job from WRITING to the registry, nor do we have code to reset the registry back to its pre-job state.  

for condor-slot users we create a fresh registry from the default user for each job that requests load_profile, so for load_profile we have no need to clean out a registry. 

-tj

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Subject: Re: [HTCondor-users] Wading into Windows HTCondor - what's the most important thing you wish you'd known?

Hi Michael,

it may not be the most important, but one rather special thing comes to my mind here which still causes us a lot of headache and came as a
surprise:

If you need to run your jobs as owner (=submitting user), the windows registry hive of that user will not be loaded for the job session. If your jobs need registry access, you are in trouble. Unfortunately, it seems that there are currently no plans to change this, probably because it is a rather rare combination of requirements.

Best,
Jens


Am 31.08.16 um 22:52 schrieb Michael V Pelletier:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> It's looking like I'm going to need to delve into the world of Windows 
> HTCondor, and I was wondering if any of you who've done so before 
> could offer suggestions on what the most important thing you wish 
> you'd known about that platform before starting? Authentication / 
> authorization items, file transfer and path oddities, etc?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>         -Michael Pelletier.
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