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Link to discussion on Developer Forum: <https://community.openpbs.org/t/allow-mom-to-create-natural-node/2610 >
Link to pull request: <PR link if available>
Overview
Mom is allowed to create vnodes using the vnode def file. But mom When the site is using a secure authentication protocol like MUNGE, the server does not have permission to rely on the qmgr create a natural node. Natural node won't get created unless that mom is explicitly added by a qmgr commandnode command to trust the mom. The proposed design will allow the mom to create the natural node and join herself to the cluster without needing an explicit qmgr command.
Admin needs to ensure the server and mom are in a secure environmentThe server will make sure that the exception is allowed only while having a secure environment and by checking the PBS_AUTH_METHOD=munge.
The name of the natural node will be the non-canonicalized hostname returned by gethostname(). This can be changed using PBS_MOM_NODE_NAME.
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