[Mauiusers] Maui/Torque and Fairshare with secondary Unix groups

[Bas van der Vlies]

Happy new year everyone,

  I had some time to examine the source of maui and found two ways to  
implement this functionality in maui. So we are not depended anymore  
on the user primary group for Fairshare or specifying some  
commandline parameters for qsub.

Here are the two solutions:
  1) Introduce a new parameter: FSGROUPS, eg:
     FSGROUPS one two three

    When a job is submitted:
     a) check if the user is a member of one of this groups
     b) if yes then set the credentials to the matching group.

2) When a job is submitted:
  a) get all the groups where the user is a member of with the  
"getgrouplist" function. I do not know if this function is available  
on all platforms.
  b) Then check if for one of the user groups a fairshare target is set
  c) if yes then set the credentials to this group.


Option 2 has more freedom but i do not know if all OS'es support the  
getgrouplist function.

I want to know which solution the community thinks is the best one?

Regards

On Dec 10, 2007, at 3:05 PM, Bas van der Vlies wrote:

>
> In our old setup the primary user group was the same as the  
> fairshare group
> in Maui. so we did not have any problems with the Fairshare (FS)  
> setup.
>
> We are now switching to a new User administration system and use  
> the Linux
> setup. Every user has as primary group his own group (user: bas,  
> group: bas).
>
> I have read some docs and the problem is that torque only sent the  
> primary
> group to Maui. There are several setup's possible:
>   * write a torque submit filter that adds -W or -A, But to my  
> knowledge
> the  submit filter does not work for batch jobs that are submitted  
> via qsub -I
>
>   * In maui:
>      USERCFG[bas] QDEF=SARA
>      QOSCFG[SARA] FSTARGET=80.0
>   But this is not very scalable. Every time a new user is added we  
> have to
>   restart Maui and generate a line as above.
>
>   * Are there other solutions possible?
>
> What i am thinking about is to patch Maui, like the way Torque has  
> done it
> with the acl_group_sloppy paramter or patch Torque to send also the
> secondary groups of user.
>
> regards,
>
>
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