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Commit 0b6b0897 authored by Donna Mecozzi's avatar Donna Mecozzi
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Added an explanation of the items required to configure

PAM to support SLURM (under the UsePAM) option.
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...@@ -528,10 +528,21 @@ The defautl value is 50. ...@@ -528,10 +528,21 @@ The defautl value is 50.
If set to 1, PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux) will be enabled. If set to 1, PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux) will be enabled.
PAM is used to establish the upper bounds for resource limits. With PAM support PAM is used to establish the upper bounds for resource limits. With PAM support
enabled, local system administrators can dynamically configure system resource enabled, local system administrators can dynamically configure system resource
limits. Changing the upper bound of a resource limit does not alter the limits limits. Changing the upper bound of a resource limit will not alter the limits
of running jobs, only jobs started after a change has been made will pick up of running jobs, only jobs started after a change has been made will pick up
the new limits. the new limits.
The default value is 0 (not to use PAM). The default value is 0 (not to enable PAM support).
Remember that PAM also needs to be configured to support SLURM as a service.
For sites using PAM's directory based configuration option, a configuration
file named \fBslurm\fR should be created. The module-type, control-flags, and
module-path names that should be included in the file are:
auth required pam_localuser.so
auth required pam_shells.so
account required pam_unix.so
account required pam_access.so
session required pam_unix.so
For sites configuring PAM with a general configuration file, the appropriate
lines (see above), where \fBslurm\fR is the service-name, should be added.
.TP .TP
\fBWaitTime\fR \fBWaitTime\fR
Specifies how many seconds the srun command should by default wait after Specifies how many seconds the srun command should by default wait after
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