Caius,
Let us know how you want StarCluster to setup users for you automatically.
I am modifying & extending StarCluster to automatically run the Grid Engine testsuite
for the Open Grid Scheduler release builds. Our testsuite requires the cluster to
have multiple users, so instead of manually setting up instances to run the testsuite
everytime we release something, I am going to fully automate the whole process - and
with that we don't even need to buy machines that sit here idle most of the time for
the build process.
Anyway, enough background. I added a new config option, "USERLIST", to specify the
list of users to be created by StarCluster when it bootstraps the cluster. For
example in the config file:
USERLIST = rayson,ana
2/2 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 100%
>>> Creating cluster user: rayson (uid: 1002, gid: 1002)
2/2 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| 100%
>>> Creating cluster user: ana (uid: 1003, gid: 1003)
rayson_at_node001:~$ qstat -u "*"
job-ID prior name user state submit/start at queue slots ja-task-ID
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
17 0.55500 sleep rayson qw 01/13/2012 02:39:18 1
18 0.55500 sleep rayson qw 01/13/2012 02:39:18 1
19 0.55500 sleep rayson qw 01/13/2012 02:39:19 1
20 0.55500 sleep ana qw 01/13/2012 02:39:25 1
21 0.55500 sleep ana qw 01/13/2012 02:39:26 1
22 0.55500 sleep ana qw 01/13/2012 02:39:26 1
23 0.55500 sleep ana qw 01/13/2012 02:39:26 1
24 0.55500 sleep ana qw 01/13/2012 02:39:27 1
25 0.55500 sleep ana qw 01/13/2012 02:39:27 1
26 0.55500 sleep ana qw 01/13/2012 02:39:27 1
27 0.55500 sleep ana qw 01/13/2012 02:39:27 1
28 0.55500 sleep ana qw 01/13/2012 02:39:28 1
29 0.55500 sleep ana qw 01/13/2012 02:39:28 1
But then, the users created don't have direct access to the cluster from outside of SC.
To provide direct user login, we can do what Justin mentioned in his previous email...
So let us know how you want your users to log onto the cluster, and we will see if it
makes sense to add the authentication method into StarCluster.
Rayson
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----- Original Message -----
From: Justin Riley <jtriley_at_mit.edu>
To: Caius Howcroft <caius.howcroft_at_gmail.com>
Cc: starcluster_at_mit.edu
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: [StarCluster] Adding users to the cluster
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Hi Caius,
Currently there is no mechanism to create multiple users on the
cluster, however, it's not all that difficult to do via a StarCluster
plugin[1].
As Rayson kindly pointed out to me, this is something that comes up
from time to time so I'm considering building it into StarCluster,
however, I'm not sure whether it would be built into the "core" or
delivered as a plugin...
Before I get into details how do you expect to give users access to
these accounts? Would you want to pass around usernames and passwords
or would you want to have SSH keys generated that you could hand to
all users (or both)?
~Justin
On 01/12/2012 02:53 PM, Caius Howcroft wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm playing with the idea of using start cluster for a multi-user
> cluster. I want to allow people to log directly into the head node
> and launch jobs, play with data etc.. As we have several users we
> have to give each one an account on the machine, whats the best way
> of doing this, doing a "adduser" on an imagehost then creating a
> new image?
>
> Cheers
>
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