From db2d2556e47f7c58e0ad8e355fe9d58fdcca603f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Moe Jette <jette1@llnl.gov> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:22:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add some clarifications per Bruce Kelly's recommendations. --- doc/html/quickstart_admin.shtml | 20 +++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/html/quickstart_admin.shtml b/doc/html/quickstart_admin.shtml index e2ef023192f..c4a6112a72b 100644 --- a/doc/html/quickstart_admin.shtml +++ b/doc/html/quickstart_admin.shtml @@ -16,7 +16,12 @@ and <i>--sysconfdir=</i></li> <li>Type <i>make install</i> to install the programs, documentation, libaries, header files, etc.</li> <li>Build a configuration file using your favorite web browser and -<i>doc/html/configurator.html</i>.</li> +<i>doc/html/configurator.html</i>.<br> +NOTE: The <i>SlurmUser</i> must be created as needed prior to starting SLURM.<br> +NOTE: The parent directories for SLURM's log files, process ID files, +state save directories, etc. are not created by SLURM. +They must be created and made writable by <i>SlurmUser</i> as needed prior to +starting SLURM daemons.</li> <li>Install the configuration file in <i><sysconfdir>/slurm.conf</i>.</li> <li>Create OpenSSL keys:<br> <i>openssl genrsa -out <sysconfdir>/slurm.key 1024</i><br> @@ -314,6 +319,12 @@ In this case "emcri" is the private management network interface for the host "mcri". Port numbers to be used for communications are specified as well as various timer values.</p> +<p>The <i>SlurmUser</i> must be created as needed prior to starting SLURM. +The parent directories for SLURM's log files, process ID files, +state save directories, etc. are not created by SLURM. +They must be created and made writable by <i>SlurmUser</i> as needed prior to +starting SLURM daemons.</p> + <p>A description of the nodes and their grouping into partitions is required. A simple node range expression may optionally be used to specify ranges of nodes to avoid building a configuration file with large @@ -412,9 +423,8 @@ initiate job steps.</p> <i>openssl genrsa -out <sysconfdir>/slurm.key 1024</i><br> <i>openssl rsa -in <sysconfdir>/slurm.key -pubout -out <sysconfdir>/slurm.cert</i> </p> -<p>SLURM does not use reserved ports to authenticate communication between -components, but relies upon an external entity to determine the user who -initiated a request. +<p>Authentication of communications from SLURM commands to the daemons +or between the daemons uses a different security mechanism that is configurable. You must specify one "auth" plugin for this purpose. Currently, only three authentication plugins are supported: <b>auth/none</b>, <b>auth/authd</b>, and @@ -608,6 +618,6 @@ in the NEWS file. </pre> <p class="footer"><a href="#top">top</a></p> -<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 5 December 2006</p> +<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 11 December 2006</p> <!--#include virtual="footer.txt"--> -- GitLab