sackd - Man Page

Slurm Auth and Cred Kiosk Daemon.

Synopsis

sackd [Options...]

Description

sackd is the Slurm Auth and Cred Kiosk Daemon. It can be used on login nodes that are not running slurmd daemons to allow authentication to the cluster. The program will run as the SlurmdUser. When running in Slurm's "configless" mode, in which case configuration files are retrieved and written under the /run/slurm/conf directory.

Options

--conf-server host[:port]

Retrieve configs from slurmctld running at host[:port]. Requires slurmctld support provided by setting enable_configless in SlurmctldParameters.

-f config

Read configuration from the specified file.

-h

Help; print a brief summary of command options.

--systemd

To be used when started from a systemd unit file.

-v

Verbose mode. Multiple -v's increase verbosity.

Environment Variables

The following environment variables can be used to override settings compiled into sackd.

SACKD_DEBUG

Set debug level explicitly for syslog and stderr. Valid values are 0-9, or the same string values as the debug options such as SlurmctldDebug in slurm.conf(5).

SACKD_STDERR_DEBUG

Set debug level explicitly for stderr. Valid values are 0-9, or the same string values as the debug options such as SlurmctldDebug in slurm.conf(5).

SACKD_SYSLOG_DEBUG

Set debug level explicitly for syslog. Valid values are 0-9, or the same string values as the debug options such as SlurmctldDebug in slurm.conf(5).

SLURM_CONF

The location of the Slurm configuration file.

SLURM_DEBUG_FLAGS

Specify debug flags for sackd to use. See DebugFlags in the slurm.conf(5) man page for a full list of flags. The environment variable takes precedence over the setting in the slurm.conf.

Signals

SIGHUP

sackd will reconfigure.

SIGUSR2

This signal is explicitly ignored.

Copying

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This file is part of Slurm, a resource management program. For details, see <https://slurm.schedmd.com/>.

Slurm is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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See Also

slurm.conf(5), slurmctld(8)

Info

April 2024 Slurm Auth and Cred Kiosk Daemon