Thank you Bernard. That was the problem. I mounted the /home directories and the sync_users worked correctly.
Many Thanks Paul -----Original Message----- From: Bernard Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:22 PM To: Palathingal, Paul J.; [email protected] Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Adding New Users Hmmm... are the /home directories mounted correctly on your slave nodes? /home directory on the headnode needs to be mounted on all the cluster nodes, for this to all work. Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: Palathingal, Paul J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:19 > To: Bernard Li; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Adding New Users > > I tried with and without the --force option. > > I created a user called 'ppw' with a <passwd>. These are the > steps I did from a remote machine after I had done the sync_users. > > 1. > ssh ppw@<head node> > > Enter username and password > > 2. > ssh <compute node 1> > > When I do this second step however it still asks me for the > <passwd> and also gives me the following log with certain > error messages in it > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > - > > Offending key for IP in /cygdrive/c/Documents and > Settings/ppw/.ssh/known_hosts: > 1 > Matching host key in /cygdrive/c/Documents and > Settings/ppw/.ssh/known_hosts:7 > Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? yes > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ppw]$ ssh aser1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > init.c(375):ERROR:50: Cannot open file '' for 'append' > generating ssh file /home/ppw/.ssh/id_dsa ... > Generating public/private dsa key pair. > open /home/ppw/.ssh/id_dsa failed: Permission denied. > Saving the key failed: /home/ppw/.ssh/id_dsa. > generating ssh file /home/ppw/.ssh/identity ... > Generating public/private rsa1 key pair. > open /home/ppw/.ssh/identity failed: Permission denied. > Saving the key failed: /home/ppw/.ssh/identity. > generating ssh file /home/ppw/.ssh/id_rsa ... > Generating public/private rsa key pair. > open /home/ppw/.ssh/id_rsa failed: Permission denied. > Saving the key failed: /home/ppw/.ssh/id_rsa. > cat: /home/ppw/.ssh/id_dsa.pub: No such file or directory > adding id to ssh file /home/ppw/.ssh/authorized_keys2 > -bash: /home/ppw/.ssh/authorized_keys2: No such file or directory > cat: /home/ppw/.ssh/identity.pub: No such file or directory > adding id to ssh file /home/ppw/.ssh/authorized_keys > -bash: /home/ppw/.ssh/authorized_keys: No such file or directory > cat: /home/ppw/.ssh/id_rsa.pub: No such file or directory > adding id to ssh file /home/ppw/.ssh/authorized_keys2 > -bash: /home/ppw/.ssh/authorized_keys2: No such file or directory > chmod: failed to get attributes of > `/home/ppw/.ssh/authorized_keys*': No such file or directory > -bash-2.05b$ > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > - > > Is there something that I might be doing incorrectly ?. > > Many Thanks > Paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bernard Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:03 PM > To: Palathingal, Paul J.; [email protected] > Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Adding New Users > > On OSCAR 3.0, the correct way of syncing up the user files is: > > /opt/opium/bin/sync_users > > If that does not work, try with --force. > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > P.S. Make sure you're running useradd on the headnode. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Palathingal, Paul J. > > Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 8:18 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Adding New Users > > > > Hello, > > > > I am running OSCAR 3.0 on Redhat 9.0. > > > > I used the "useradd -u <uid> -p <passwd> " command to add > users. And > > I did setup the password too. > > > > How do I sync up /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to the nodes > (excuse me > > for being a novice). Also what are the other files I might need to > > sync. > > > > Many Thanks > > Paul > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bernard Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 5:29 PM > > To: Palathingal, Paul J.; [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] Adding New Users > > > > Hi Paul: > > > > Which version of OSCAR are you using? > > > > How did you add the new user on the headnode? Did you also > setup the > > password for the user? > > > > sync_users works by syncing up /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to the > > nodes (among other files). > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bernard > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > > Palathingal, Paul J. > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 14:01 > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [Oscar-users] Adding New Users > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have OSCAR installed on a 4 node (head node + 3 compute > > > node) system. > > > Everything works fine. However I wanted to add a new user > > and I could > > > not get it to work. The steps I did were > > > > > > 1. Add the new user on the head node 2. Use > > > >/opt/opium/bin/sync_usrs to propagate the user > > information to > > > the compute nodes. > > > > > > However after I do that and I try to log in with the new > > user account > > > it always asks me for a password. I'd appreciate it if > > someone could > > > help me out with this. > > > > > > Many Thanks > > > Paul > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Sandeep > > > Sharma > > > Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 5:31 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: [Oscar-users] Testing failed > > > > > > I am trying to install Oscar 4.0 on Red Hat Enterprise > > Linux 3. I was > > > able to install everything fine till I reached the last step, > > > "testing". The /home mounts fails and ssh > > > server-->node also fails. I am able to login to the the nodes > > > as a root without having to give the password. But I > cannot do the > > > same when I log in as oscartst. > > > > > > While rebooting the nodes I have noticed that NFS mount > > fails, with a > > > error message saying no route to the host found. I have used the > > > default kernel while installing Oscar and assume that it > > supports NFS. > > > > > > If anyone else ran into the same problem please let me know > > how they > > > solved it. I am attaching my log file with this mail. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Sandeep. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest > > & candid > > > reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > > > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. 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