[mpich-discuss] Running MPICH2 on Windows -- Username and Password Issue

[Jayesh Krishna]

Hi,
 Unfortunately we currently don't have enough developer bandwidth to add a new authentication mechanism for launching MPI jobs.
 However, if you just want to run MPI jobs on a single node/machine you should be able to use "-localonly" or "-localroot' option with mpiexec.

Regards,
Jayesh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Massey" <dr.chris.massey at gmail.com>
To: mpich-discuss at mcs.anl.gov
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 10:23:56 AM
Subject: [mpich-discuss] Running MPICH2 on Windows -- Username and Password	Issue



I have MPICH2 installed and running on a Windows PC. This machine requires a user to login via an authentication with an exchange server. Our IT security policy for login to a machine has changed recently and we will now be using a smartcard (CAC) and pin number instead of username/password to authenticate to a machine. These means that a password is not available for entering into the mpiexec.exe when requested. Can the username and password be disabled somehow? Can a CAC and pin be used to provide the required information for mpiexec.exe? 

Thanks, 
Chris 
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