NAME¶

sackd - Slurm auth and cred kiosk daemon.

SYNOPSIS¶

sackd [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION¶

sackd is the auth and cred kiosk daemon for Slurm. It can be used on login nodes that are not running slurmd daemons to allow authentication to the cluster. The program run as the SlurmdUser. The configurations files retrieved according to the options are written under the /run/slurm/conf directory.

OPTIONS¶

--conf-server host[:port]

Retrieve configs from slurmctld running at `host[:port]`. The slurmctld should be configured accordingly adding enable_configless to SlurmctldParameters option.

-f config

Read configuration from the specified file.

-h

Print an help message.

--systemd

To be used when started from a systemd unit file.

-v

Verbose mode. Multiple -v's increase verbosity.

SIGNALS¶

SIGHUP

sackd will reconfigure

SIGUSR2

This signal is explicitly ignored.

COPYING¶

Copyright (C) 2024 SchedMD LLC.

This file is part of Slurm, a resource management program. For details, see <https://slurm.schedmd.com/>.

Slurm is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Slurm is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

SEE ALSO¶

slurm.conf(5), slurmctld(8)