Hi Jan
Thanks, It cleared my confusion about munge and trqauthd.
Cheers
Kashif
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> Sent: 06 May 2015 16:56
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> Subject: Re: [LCG-ROLLOUT] Torque 4 from EPEL
>
> Hi Kashif
>
> > Did anyone manage to configure torque-4.2 from EPEL successfully?
>
> Yes, but to get it running you need to fix manually:
>
> - directories /var/lib/torque/spool/ , /var/lib/torque/checkpoint/ and
> /var/lib/torque/undelivered/ have wrong permissions
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216037), the permissions
> should be 1777
>
> - trqauthd init script is not included in EPEL packages
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1215207), you can download
> it from torque sources on github
>
> > I have looked at torque spec file from EPEL and it is built with
> > '-enable-munge-auth' but my understanding is that torque 4 should be
> using
> > trqauthd.
>
> You need both trqauthd and munge daemons running on server and all
> nodes where torque client commands have to run. The reason might be:
>
> http://docs.adaptivecomputing.com/torque/5-1-
> 0/Content/topics/torque/12-appendices/securityOverview.htm
>
> "Neither trqauthd nor pbs_iff do authentication. They only do authorization
> of users."
>
> http://docs.adaptivecomputing.com/torque/4-1-3/Content/topics/1-
> installConfig/serverConfig.htm#usingMUNGEAuth
>
> "MUNGE is an authentication service that creates and validates user
> credentials."
>
> > Any way I installed torque4 from EPEL but pbs_server didn't start with
> > or without trqauthd.
>
> Try to look into logs of torque server if you will find anything useful there.
>
> Cheers,
> Jan
>
> --
> Jan Astalos
> NGI_SK - operations
> Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences
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