Re: [Condor-devel] CONDOR_IDS or bust!

[Tim St Clair <tstclair@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alan De Smet" <adesmet@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Condor Developers" <condor-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 11:57:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [Condor-devel] CONDOR_IDS or bust!
> 
> Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Can we deprecate CONDOR_IDS?
> 
> Thereby mandating that a condor account exists on your system if
> you want to run Condor as root?  That seems likely to irritate
> some admins.
> 
> Timothy St. Clair <tstclair@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Please don't!! this would be a PITA for development purposes.
> > Right now I have several versions of condor which I control
> > under my user account with only root controlling the main
> > install.  This segregation it nice for development.
> 
> If this is a subtle enough misconfiguration that it bit us, it
> seems worth guarding our users against it, even if the cost is
> making development harder.

-1 

Q: How could users run a personal sandboxed condor then? (which many users do)
A: They couldn't 

so again, please don't remove it. 

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