sackd(8)

NAME
sackd - Slurm Auth and Cred Kiosk Daemon.

SYNOPSIS
sackd [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION
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 (unless RUNTIME_DIRECTORY is set).

OPTIONS

--ca-cert-file <file>
    Absolute path to CA certificate used for fetching configuration when running configless in a TLS enabled cluster.

--conf-server host[:port]
    Retrieve configs from slurmctld running at host[:port]. Requires slurmctld support provided by setting enable_configless in SlurmctldParameters.

-D  Run sackd in the foreground with logging copied to stderr.

--disable-reconfig
    Fetch configurations in configless mode once, but do not register with slurmctld for further reconfiguration updates.

-f config
    Read configuration from the specified file.

-h  Help; print a brief summary of command options.

--port number
    Port socket number to listen for reconfiguration updates. This can be useful when multiple sackds co-exist on the same login node. The default value is SlurmdPort.

--systemd
    To be used when started from a systemd unit file.

-v  Verbose mode. Multiple -v's increase verbosity.

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

ABORT_ON_FATAL
    When a fatal error is detected, use abort() instead of exit() to terminate the process. This allows backtraces to be captured without recompiling Slurm.

RUNTIME_DIRECTORY
    Absolute path governing the location for both the configuration cache sackd maintains, and the sack.socket unix socket used to provide authentication services.

    If multiple sackds need to be started on the same login node, the RuntimeDirectory systemd unit option should be set to slurm-<clustername>. Systemd v240+ automatically sets RUNTIME_DIRECTORY to /run/$RuntimeDirectory for each sackd service, otherwise it requires manual setting (i.e. via EnvironmentFile unit option).

    If this is not set, the default value is /run/slurm/.

SACKD_DEBUG
    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).

SACKD_DISABLE_RECONFIG
    Same as -isable-reconfig.

SACKD_PORT
    Same as --port.

SACKD_STDERR_DEBUG
    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).

SACKD_SYSLOG_DEBUG
    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).

SLURM_CONF
    The location of the Slurm configuration file.

SLURM_DEBUG_FLAGS
    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.

SIGNALS

SIGINT
    sackd will shutdown cleanly.

SIGHUP
    sackd will reconfigure.

SIGUSR2 SIGPIPE
    This signal is explicitly ignored.

COPYING
Copyright (C) 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)