[mpich-discuss] mpiexec -register on Windows

[Luiz Carlos da Costa Junior]

Hi Jayesh,

I would like to configure everything related to MPI during the install
process of my parallel software (Windows). In order to do so, I've created
an application that is called in the install process that performs the
following steps:

1) Creates a local user on Windows for parallel executions of my software,
let say, "parallel_user";
2) Creates a shares for each local disk (C:\, D:\) with access rights just
for the "parallel_user";
3) Register this user in MPI using "mpiexec -register";
4) Adds the executable of my application to Windows Firewall exceptions.

My question was specifically about item (3), which will be part of the setup
application: is there an way to call "mpiexec -register" passing user and
password as arguments, i.e., without prompting for the user to type it?

My intention (I am still testing) is to do not prompt the user for an
user/password neither during the install process nor at the beginning of the
executions of my software. Can you see any problem in the scheme above? (any
suggestion will be also welcome).

Regards,
Luiz

On 29 March 2010 11:00, Jayesh Krishna <jayesh at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Hi,
>  MPICH2 requires the username and password to launch MPI jobs on behalf of
> the user. So the job launcher needs to prompt the user for the username and
> password.
>  I am not quite sure what you meant by registering the user directly via
> command line. Can you please explain ?
>
> Regards,
> Jayesh
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Luiz Carlos da Costa Junior" <lcjunior at ufrj.br>
> To: "MPICH Discuss" <mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov>
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 8:02:45 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: [mpich-discuss] mpiexec -register on Windows
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
> Is there any way to register an user directly via command line, i.e.,
> without prompting to the user for user name and password?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Luiz
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