Ah, you are creating a *new* association: sacctmgr create user cseraphine account=test1
HTH - Michael On Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 13:47 Chip Seraphine <cseraph...@drwholdings.com> wrote: > 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? > > > -- > > Chip Seraphine > Grid Operations > For support please use help-grid in email or slack. > This e-mail and any attachments may contain information that is > confidential and proprietary and otherwise protected from disclosure. If > you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, do not read, duplicate > or redistribute it by any means. Please immediately delete it and any > attachments and notify the sender that you have received it by mistake. > Unintended recipients are prohibited from taking action on the basis of > information in this e-mail or any attachments. The DRW Companies make no > representations that this e-mail or any attachments are free of computer > viruses or other defects. >
