Re: [Condor-devel] CONDOR_IDS or bust!

[Erik Paulson <epaulson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good idea. Please also change the init scripts to complain loudly 
when that happens. 

-Erik

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 12:02:49PM -0500, Alan De Smet wrote:
> I recently debugged a problem caused by a few Condor machines
> with real UIDs of condor, not root as was intended.  Upon
> reflection, if you want to run as root, shouldn't running as any
> other user be a fatal error?
> 
> Proposed:
> 
> If CONDOR_IDS is set, and the UID in CONDOR_IDS is different from
> the real UID Condor was started as, it should be a fatal error
> for the condor_master.  Currently this situation is silently
> ignored.
> 
> Good idea?  Bad idea?
> 
> -- 
> Alan De Smet                 Center for High Throughput Computing
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