sackd(8) Slurm Auth and Cred Kiosk Daemon sackd(8)

sackd - Slurm Auth and Cred Kiosk Daemon.

sackd [OPTIONS...]

sackd is the Slurm Auth and Cred Kiosk Daemon. It can be used on login nodes that are not running slurmd daemons to allow authentication to the cluster. The program will run as the SlurmdUser. When running in Slurm's "configless" mode, in which case configuration files are retrieved and written under the /run/slurm/conf directory.

Retrieve configs from slurmctld running at host[:port]. Requires slurmctld support provided by setting enable_configless in SlurmctldParameters.
Read configuration from the specified file.
Help; print a brief summary of command options.
To be used when started from a systemd unit file.
Verbose mode. Multiple -v's increase verbosity.

The following environment variables can be used to override settings compiled into sackd.

Set debug level explicitly for syslog and stderr. Valid values are 0-9, or the same string values as the debug options such as SlurmctldDebug in slurm.conf(5).
Set debug level explicitly for stderr. Valid values are 0-9, or the same string values as the debug options such as SlurmctldDebug in slurm.conf(5).
Set debug level explicitly for syslog. Valid values are 0-9, or the same string values as the debug options such as SlurmctldDebug in slurm.conf(5).
The location of the Slurm configuration file.
Specify debug flags for sackd to use. See DebugFlags in the slurm.conf(5) man page for a full list of flags. The environment variable takes precedence over the setting in the slurm.conf.

sackd will reconfigure.
This signal is explicitly ignored.

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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.

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slurm.conf(5), slurmctld(8)

Slurm Auth and Cred Kiosk Daemon April 2024