[torquedev] Bad UID for job execution MSG=root user root not allowed while submittng the job

[Joshua Bernstein]

saju.kandathil at nokia.com wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Thanks for the comment .
> By the way for now I have setup torque on a Vmware on a trial basis where I have not creates any specific user other then  root , If I could make it work successfully I will be having an environment with specific users and groups.
> If possible could you please tell me how I could resolve this for now .
> 
> Thanks in advance

Hi Saju,

You can enabled root to submit jobs, but again, its generally not a good idea. 
You could do something like:

qmgr -c 's s acl_roots+=root@*'

which should enabled the root user to submit jobs. Or you could simply add a 
user to your VMWare system. You may get a better view of how things will behave 
as sometimes jobs will behave differently when run as a user, rather then root 
due to differences in $PATH and other environmental settings.

-Joshua Bernstein
Software Engineer
Penguin Computing


>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: torquedev-bounces at supercluster.org
>> [mailto:torquedev-bounces at supercluster.org] On Behalf Of ext
>> Chris Samuel
>> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 4:26 PM
>> To: torquedev
>> Subject: Re: [torquedev] Bad UID for job execution MSG=root
>> user root not allowed while submittng the job
>>
>>
>> ----- "saju kandathil" <saju.kandathil at nokia.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am getting the following error what could be the problem .
>>>
>>> CRITICAL - qsub output: ['qsub: Bad UID for job execution MSG=root
>>> user root not allowed\n']
>> Torque is trying to stop you shooting yourself in the foot,
>> it's not good security practice to do that sort of thing!
>>
>> We do submit jobs that do things like reboot nodes, but we use
>> a special user who has sudo access for particular commands instead.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Chris
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