Re: [HTCondor-users] best way to use cached data

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/12/2013 6:26 AM, Matthew Farrellee wrote:

> I've had success with startd cron for advertising the contents of a
> cache, and highly recommend it over configuration changes.

As I understand startd cron, you configure your nodes to periodically 
run a script that publishes custom attributes, and the way a regular 
user would publish their custom attributes is by modifying the script. 
(Or am I missing something?)

The script runs as condor (root) user, so security-wise this is worse 
than letting them 'sudo condor-reconfig' as now they can run anything as 
condor.

Either way, my point was that doesn't work when you're shipping 
(flocking, gliding) jobs off-site and have no control over execute nodes 
whatsoever.

Dima