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authorEmmanuel N. Millán <emmanueln@gmail.com>2015-08-19 05:55:02 +0700
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2015-08-21 03:25:02 +0700
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+MUNGE (MUNGE Uid 'N' Gid Emporium) is an authentication service for creating and validating credentials.
+
+It is designed to be highly scalable for use in an HPC cluster environment.
+It allows a process to authenticate the UID and GID of another local or remote process
+within a group of hosts having common users and groups. These hosts form a security realm
+that is defined by a shared cryptographic key. Clients within this security realm can create
+and validate credentials without the use of root privileges, reserved ports, or platform-specific methods.
+
+On most platforms, the munged daemon does not require root privileges to run.
+If possible, you should run the daemon as a non-privileged user.
+This can be specified in the init script /etc/rc.d/rc.munge.
+
+# groupadd -g 310 munge
+# useradd -u 310 -d /var/lib/munge -s /bin/false -g munge munge
+
+After installation a secret key file needs to be created. Follow instructions from:
+https://github.com/dun/munge/wiki/Installation-Guide#creating-a-secret-key