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-MUNGE (MUNGE Uid 'N' Gid Emporium) is an authentication service for creating and validating credentials.
+munge (an authentication service)
-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.
+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.
@@ -13,5 +18,7 @@ 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:
+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