Administering Platform LSF - SAS

LSF in Multiple Authentication Environments
LSF in Multiple Authentication Environments
In some environments, such as a UNIX system or a Windows domain, you can
have one user account that works on all hosts. However, when you build an
LSF cluster in a heterogeneous environment, you can have a different user
account on each system, and each system does its own password
authentication.
This means that LSF cannot always use the submission account to run a job,
because the job will fail if the execution host cannot validate the password of
the account you used on the submission host.
In an environment of multiple authentication systems, user mapping
determines which account LSF uses when it runs your job. User mapping can
be defined all of the following ways:
◆ For clusters containing Windows hosts, LSF default user mapping
(LSF_USER_DOMAIN in lsf.conf) might be enabled. This should be
configured only once, when you install and set up LSF.
◆ User mapping at the user level (lsb.hosts) is configurable by the user.
◆ User mapping at the system level (lsb.users) is configurable by the
administrator.
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