Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: Tony Fountain <fountat@fsl.orst.edu>
Subject: multiple users/single virtual machine
Organization: Oregon State University
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 17:41:27 -0700
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Request for technical advice.

I'm running PVM3.3 on a network of sparcs.

I have one virtual machine defined under 
login name "xxx".  

I want to allow specific other users to launch 
pvm jobs in this virtual machine.

I don't want these users to login as "xxx".

These users don't have root permission and thus
can't execute setuid.

I would like to do something like the following:

 #> rsh -l xxx -n hostname pvm_executable

Of course unless the user is xxx the above results
in a permissions error.

All advice is appreciated. 

Tony Fountain
Research Assistant
Forest Sciences Lab
Oregon State University
fountat@fsl.orst.edu

