[torqueusers] how is the torque renewal scripts supposed to work?

[Andreas Davour]

On Monday, July 12, 2010 16:43:37 Alex Rolfe wrote:
> Andreas Davour <davour at pdc.kth.se> writes:
> > On Monday, July 12, 2010 16:06:33 Alex Rolfe wrote:
> >> Andreas Davour <davour at pdc.kth.se> writes:
> >> > That was more than I manage to digest in one go.
> >> > 
> >> > Let me see if I got this right.
> >> > 
> >> > The pbs_server and the pbs_mom need to be started with credentials.
> >> > This means I have to start them both (for the mom on every node) with
> >> > this invocation?
> >> > 
> >> > $KINIT  -k -t $KEYTAB  $PRINCIPAL pbs_server|pbs_mom
> >> > 
> >> > and then do the same for maui and make sure they all are started in an
> >> > environment where KRB5CCNAME point to the same cache, or at least a
> >> > cache containing the same tickets?
> >> 
> >> No, the server and the moms do not need to be started with valid
> >> tickets; they'll get tickets as needed as long as your kerberos
> >> configuration is setup such that a call to gss_acquire_cred() works (see
> >> pbsgss_server_acquire_creds in src/lib/Libifl/pbsgss.c; I think this is
> >> the equivalent to "kinit -k" from the command line).
> > 
> > Good, that means I got it right the first time.
> > 
> > But maui, that needs to be started with valid tickets, like "kinit -k"?
> 
> No, the gssapi code doesn't make any changes to the communication
> between maui and the pbs_server.  One *could* do that (in the same way
> that one could add gssapi authentication to all communication between
> the server and the mom), but it's not been done in the current code.

So that means that maui doesn't talk to the moms, just to the pbs_server, 
which then talks to the moms?

I wonder why my pbs_server and my maui wont talk then?

/andreas
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