Hi,
> Large chunks of SouthGrid at least are going to be unable to comply as a
>
> matter of practice. Strong though the general sense of revulsion is,
> this
> isn't just about the principle - we simply do not have root on all our
> worker nodes, and cannot do this. This is not something that can be
> overridden or ignored - if GridPP/the LCG wants to use university
> clusters
> such as those at Bristol, Cambridge, and Birmingham then there has to be
> a non-SUID option. What we need is for the PMB to listen to the site
> admins
> and feed these facts upwards.
I am afraid that this will be true also of Imperial ICT (which we have
just got access to), LeSC, UCL Central and I am not sure about the new
RHUL cluster. While it may be possible at the other sites they are
universally against it. I am not sure how London will proceed if LCG
really want to make this mandatory.
All the best,
david
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