Re: [HTCondor-users] How to change a user's priority permanently?

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/30/2014 11:09 AM, Ralph Finch wrote:
> $CondorVersion: 8.2.1 Jun 27 2014 BuildID: 256063 $
> $CondorPlatform: x86_64_Windows8 $
> 
> The manual says a user can submit a job with nice_user = <True | False> .
> However as pool admin, I'd like to permanently set in a config file some
> users as nice_user = True for all their jobs. Is there a way to do this,
> rather than depend on users to do this voluntarily in their submit configs?
> 

All HTCondor does when it sees a job with 'nice_user=True' is it temporarily 
increases the priority factor for that job by $(NICE_USER_PRIO_FACTOR), which 
defaults to 10000000000.

So if you want user "todd@xxxxxxx" to have all their jobs treated as if they 
were nice_user jobs, enter

  condor_userprio -setfactor todd@xxxxxxx 10000000000

Or, if on Linux and you really want to be fancy,
 
  condor_userprio -setfactor todd@xxxxxxx `condor_config_val NICE_USER_PRIO_FACTOR`

Of course, you will need to do this from a machine/account that has
HTCondor administrator authorization, since obviously only admins should
be able to adjust relative priorities across different users; in the typical 
default install, this means your central manager.

Hope this helps,
Todd