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From: William Bierman (wbierman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-12 18:09:51


On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 18:59:36 -0400, Jeff Squyres <jsquyres_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Sep 12, 2004, at 6:56 PM, William Bierman wrote:
>
> > So the next logical question is whether it is good practice to make
> > each user su to the lamd user prior to running their processes,
> > keeping in mind there will eventually be simultaneous processes?
>
> Yikes! No!
>
> It's really not a big deal for users to run lamboot / lamhalt
> themselves. This actually gives them a discrete "universe" to play in
> that won't interfere with other people's MPI jobs.

Interesting. I guess I will just make users add themselves a pwless
ssh key before trying to run any MPI jobs.

God bless n(f|i)s.

Thank you again, Jeff.

Regards,

William