LSF Version 7.3 - Platform LSF Configuration Reference

Description

Timeout when receiving a reply from LIM.

EGO parameter

EGO_LIM_RECVTIMEOUT

Default

See also

LSF_API_CONNTIMEOUT

LSF_AUTH

Syntax

LSF_AUTH=eauth | ident

Description

Enables either external authentication or authentication by means of identification daemons.

This parameter is required for any cluster that contains Windows hosts, and is optional for

UNIX-only clusters. After defining or changing the value of LSF_AUTH, you must shut down

and restart the LSF daemons on all server hosts to apply the new authentication method.

eauth

For site-specific customized external authentication. Provides the highest level of

security of all LSF authentication methods.

ident

For authentication using the RFC 931/1413/1414 protocol to verify the identity of the

remote client. If you want to use ident authentication, you must download and install

the ident protocol, available from the public domain, and register ident as required by

your operating system.

For UNIX-only clusters, privileged ports authentication (setuid) can be configured by

commenting out or deleting the LSF_AUTH parameter. If you choose privileged ports

authentication, LSF commands must be installed as setuid programs owned by root. If the

commands are installed in an NFS-mounted shared file system, the file system must be

mounted with setuid execution allowed, that is, without the nosuid option.

Restriction:

To enable privileged ports authentication, LSF_AUTH must not

be defined; setuid is not a valid value for LSF_AUTH.

Default

eauth

During LSF installation, a default eauth executable is installed in the directory specified by the

parameter LSF_SERVERDIR in the lsf.conf file. The default executable provides an

lsf.conf

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