On 2010-03-09, at 2:46 AM, Hugh Macdonald wrote:

Mat - The users themselves shouldn't be doing this - it's more tied up in the pipeline and render farm side of things.

Depending on your render pipeline you could have the rendering run as the local (Mac) admin user, thereby not needing a mounted nfs home folder on each workstation that is rendering. Since you're probably rendering on your shared network filesystem (nfs) you don't need home folders of any particular users.

There are two things that I need to be able to do that I can't at the moment...

The 'render' user (that all render machines are running as) needs to be able to sudo (without a password) the command 'runFarmCommand.py' as any user. This works for now, but usually chucks up warnings about not being able to find the user's home directory.

the render user in this case could be the local admin account or another local account just for rendering. And this would eliminate these error messages.

Users need to be able to SSH between machines without needing a password (for Alfred). At the moment, the user on the remote machine can't access ~/.ssh/, so the authentication can't happen (this works just fine under Linux)

If you can trust rendering users to use a shared account then your auth key for ssh can go locally. Depends on your security requirements, vs. your pipeline setup needs.

:)

Mat X

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