[torqueusers] disabling direct access to compute nodes

[Bas van der Vlies]

Markus Seto wrote:
> Hi, I've recently started fiddling with a torque installation, and was 
> wondering if it's possible to disable direct access to the compute nodes 
> from the master node.  I've noticed some users cheating the system and 
> directly logging into compute nodes to run jobs, and I want to force 
> them to use the queue system, but I was told that direct access with ssh 
> keys is needed for torque to run.  any ideas?
> 
> markus
> 
Depends on which version you run there are two solutions:
  * use the pam module: pam_pbssimpleauth.so. It is in the standard torque 
installation. It only gives access to a node if a user has a job running on 
the node.
  * in the contrib directory of torque there is a file: README.pam_authuser

We use the first one: pam_pbssimpleauth.so.

Regards

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