On 27/05/2021 08:19, Loris Bennett wrote: > Thanks for the detailed explanations. I was obviously completely > confused about what MUNGE does. Would it be possible to say, in very > hand-waving terms, that MUNGE performs a similar role for the access of > processes to nodes as SSH does for the access of users to nodes?
A tiny bit yes. Munge allows you to authenticate users between servers (like a unix socket does within a single machine): https://github.com/dun/munge/wiki/Man-7-munge Ward