Customize external authentication

About this task

By default, eauth uses an internal key to encrypt authentication data, but you may whish to use your own external key to further improve security.

You can also write your own external authentication application to meet the security requirements of your cluster.

Procedure

  1. Edit the lsf.sudoers file.
  2. Use a custom external key by specifying the LSF_EAUTH_KEY parameter.

    LSF_EAUTH_KEY=key

  3. Restart the cluster to activate this change.

    lsfrestart