[mpich-discuss] mpiexec -register on Windows

[Luiz Carlos da Costa Junior]

Hi,
Thanks very much.
Regards,
Luiz

On 29 March 2010 14:07, Jayesh Krishna <jayesh at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Hi,
>  MPICH2 does not allow registering username and passwords using command
> line arguments to mpiexec. You might be able to redirect the stdin/stdout of
> the mpiexec process to your install program and specify the
> username/password.
>
> Regards,
> Jayesh
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Luiz Carlos da Costa Junior" <lcjunior at ufrj.br>
> To: "Jayesh Krishna" <jayesh at mcs.anl.gov>
> Cc: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 10:39:35 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [mpich-discuss] mpiexec -register on Windows
>
> 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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