“An LDAP user can login to the login, slurmctld and compute nodes, but when 
they try to submit jobs, slurmctld logs an error about invalid account or 
partition for user.”

Since I don’t think it was mentioned below, does a non-LDAP user get the same 
error, or does it work by default?

We don’t use LDAP explicitly, but we’ve used sssd with Slurm and Active 
Directory for 6.5 years without issue. We’ve always added users to sacctmgr so 
that we could track usage by research group or class, so we never used a 
default account for all users.

From: Richard Chang via slurm-users <slurm-users@lists.schedmd.com>
Date: Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 11:41 PM
To: slurm-us...@schedmd.com <slurm-us...@schedmd.com>
Subject: [slurm-users] SLURM configuration for LDAP users

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Hi,

I am a little new to this, so please pardon my ignorance.

I have configured slurm in my cluster and it works fine with local users. But I 
am not able to get it working with LDAP/SSSD authentication.

User logins using ssh are working fine. An LDAP user can login to the login, 
slurmctld and compute nodes, but when they try to submit jobs, slurmctld logs 
an error about invalid account or partition for user.

Someone said we need to add the user manually into the database using the 
sacctmgr command. But I am not sure we need to do this for each and every LDAP 
user. Yes, it does work if we add the LDAP user manually using sacctmgr. But I 
am not convinced this manual way is the way to do.

The documentation is not very clear about using LDAP accounts.

Saw somewhere in the list about using UsePAM=1 and copying or creating a 
softlink for slurm PAM module under /etc/pam.d . But it didn't work for me.

Saw somewhere else that we need to specifying LaunchParameters=enable_nss_slurm 
in the slurm.conf file and put slurm keyword in passwd/group entry in the 
/etc/nsswitch.conf file. Did these, but didn't help either.

I am bereft of ideas at present. If anyone has real world experience and can 
advise, I will be grateful.

Thank you,

Richard
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