NAME

       sackd - Slurm Auth and Cred Kiosk Daemon.

SYNOPSIS

       sackd [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION

       sackd  is the Slurm Auth and Cred Kiosk Daemon. It can be used on login nodes that are not running slurmd
       daemons to allow authentication to the cluster. The program will run as the SlurmdUser. When  running  in
       Slurm's  "configless"  mode,  in  which  case  configuration  files  are  retrieved and written under the
       /run/slurm/conf directory.

OPTIONS

       --conf-server host[:port]
              Retrieve configs from slurmctld running at host[:port].  Requires slurmctld  support  provided  by
              setting enable_configless in SlurmctldParameters.

       -f config
              Read configuration from the specified file.

       -h     Help; print a brief summary of command options.

       --systemd
              To be used when started from a systemd unit file.

       -v     Verbose mode. Multiple -v's increase verbosity.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       The following environment variables can be used to override settings compiled into sackd.

       SACKD_DEBUG
              Set  debug level explicitly for syslog and stderr. Valid values are 0-9, or the same string values
              as the debug options such as SlurmctldDebug in slurm.conf(5).

       SACKD_STDERR_DEBUG
              Set debug level explicitly for stderr. Valid values are 0-9, or the  same  string  values  as  the
              debug options such as SlurmctldDebug in slurm.conf(5).

       SACKD_SYSLOG_DEBUG
              Set  debug  level  explicitly  for  syslog. Valid values are 0-9, or the same string values as the
              debug options such as SlurmctldDebug in slurm.conf(5).

       SLURM_CONF
              The location of the Slurm configuration file.

       SLURM_DEBUG_FLAGS
              Specify debug flags for sackd to use. See DebugFlags in the slurm.conf(5) man page for a full list
              of flags. The environment variable takes precedence over the setting in the slurm.conf.

SIGNALS

       SIGHUP
             sackd will reconfigure.

       SIGUSR2
             This signal is explicitly ignored.

COPYING

       Copyright (C) SchedMD LLC.

       This   file   is   part   of   Slurm,   a   resource    management    program.     For    details,    see
       <https://slurm.schedmd.com/>.

       Slurm  is  free  software;  you  can  redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
       Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
       option) any later version.

       Slurm is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but  WITHOUT  ANY  WARRANTY;  without  even  the
       implied  warranty  of  MERCHANTABILITY  or  FITNESS  FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
       License for more details.

SEE ALSO

       slurm.conf(5), slurmctld(8)

April 2024                              Slurm Auth and Cred Kiosk Daemon                                sackd(8)