[slurm-users] Adding an association to a different account

[Chip Seraphine]

TL,DR: How do you associate an existing user with a second account?

I have a user who has a default account, and I want to give them the ability to run jobs in a different account for billback purposes. My understanding is that this is what associations are for, but I can’t seem to figure out how to tie a user into a “secondary” account with an additional association. This question gets asked from time to time in online forums, but the answer that comes back is invariably to change the default account, which I expressly do not want to do.

I have something like this:
$ sacctmgr show assoc tree 'format=account%-33,user%-15,parentname%-15'
Account User ParentName
--------------------------------- --------------- ---------------
root
root root
gridadmins root
gridadmins cseraphine
gridadmins srv_gridops
test1 root
$ sacctmgr show user cseraphine format=User,DefaultAccount%30,Account%30
User Def Acct Account
---------- ------------------------------ ------------------------------
cseraphine gridadmins

User “cseraphine” has default account “gridadmins”. So far so good. Now I want to give cseraphine the ability to optionally charge jobs against “test1” without changing any default behavior (as with “srun -A test1 ….”). The sacctmgr man page tells me I cannot “create” an assoc, I must do it my modifying a user However:

$ sacctmgr modify user where user=cseraphine set account=test1
Unknown option: account=test1
Use keyword 'where' to modify condition

The “where” hint suggests that I am making a syntactical error and I’ve tried all the obvious permutations (modifying the account instead of the user, += instead of =, moving the clauses around etc), but without joy. Does anyone know how to do this?


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[Michael Gutteridge]

Ah, you are creating a *new* association:

sacctmgr create user cseraphine account=test1

HTH

 - Michael 

[Chip Seraphine]

Thank you, I struggled with that. Very unintuitive to use “create user” on an existing user! I think I was actually looking at the answer a few times but assumed they were doing something else, given the syntax.

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Ah, you are creating a *new* association: sacctmgr create user cseraphine account=test1 HTH - Michael On Tue, Dec 19, 2023, 13: 47 Chip Seraphine <cseraphine@ drwholdings. com> wrote: TL,DR: How do you associate an existing user with a second

Ah, you are creating a *new* association:

sacctmgr create user cseraphine account=test1

HTH

- Michael