Hello developers, I'm the maintainer of the package slurm-llnl. This package provides SLURM which is a batch queuing system for clusters. In a cluster environment the package needs to be installed on all the nodes of the cluster. It usually works with one "central manager" which assigns jobs to all the execution hosts.
The SLURM "central manager" daemon doesn't need root privileges and therefore I create a "slurm" user which is the owner of the process and of some directories. The problem is that using a non privileged user only works if the user has the same uid on all the node of the cluster, even if they are only execution hosts. To ensure this I need that the SLURM user created on package installation has the same uid on any system. I have read the 9.2.2 section of the policy and I think I need a uid in the range 60000-64999 since it should be: "Globally allocated by the Debian project, but only created on demand. The ids are allocated centrally and statically, but the actual accounts are only created on users' systems on demand." Who should I ask to be assigned a fixed uid in the 60000-64999 range for the SLURM user? Thanks for your attention. -- Gennaro Oliva -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
