TL,DR: How do you associate an existing user with a second account?
I have a user who has a default account, and I want to give them the ability to
run jobs in a different account for billback purposes. My understanding is
that this is what associations are for, but I can’t seem to figure out how to
tie a user into a “secondary” account with an additional association. This
question gets asked from time to time in online forums, but the answer that
comes back is invariably to change the default account, which I expressly do
not want to do.
I have something like this:
$ sacctmgr show assoc tree 'format=account%-33,user%-15,parentname%-15'
Account User ParentName
--------------------------------- --------------- ---------------
root
root root
gridadmins root
gridadmins cseraphine
gridadmins srv_gridops
test1 root
$ sacctmgr show user cseraphine format=User,DefaultAccount%30,Account%30
User Def Acct Account
---------- ------------------------------ ------------------------------
cseraphine gridadmins
User “cseraphine” has default account “gridadmins”. So far so good. Now I
want to give cseraphine the ability to optionally charge jobs against “test1”
without changing any default behavior (as with “srun -A test1 ….”). The
sacctmgr man page tells me I cannot “create” an assoc, I must do it my
modifying a user However:
$ sacctmgr modify user where user=cseraphine set account=test1
Unknown option: account=test1
Use keyword 'where' to modify condition
The “where” hint suggests that I am making a syntactical error and I’ve tried
all the obvious permutations (modifying the account instead of the user, +=
instead of =, moving the clauses around etc), but without joy. Does anyone
know how to do this?
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Chip Seraphine
Grid Operations
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