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Commit db2d2556 authored by Moe Jette's avatar Moe Jette
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Add some clarifications per Bruce Kelly's recommendations.

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......@@ -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>&lt;sysconfdir&gt;/slurm.conf</i>.</li>
<li>Create OpenSSL keys:<br>
<i>openssl genrsa -out &lt;sysconfdir&gt;/slurm.key 1024</i><br>
......@@ -314,6 +319,12 @@ In this case &quot;emcri&quot; is the private management network interface
for the host &quot;mcri&quot;. 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 &lt;sysconfdir&gt;/slurm.key 1024</i><br>
<i>openssl rsa -in &lt;sysconfdir&gt;/slurm.key -pubout -out &lt;sysconfdir&gt;/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 &quot;auth&quot; 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.
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<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 5 December 2006</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Last modified 11 December 2006</p>
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