Re: 2.11 how to remove charmrun remote-shell options

From: Scott Brozell (srb_at_osc.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 20 2016 - 19:05:08 CST

Hi,

This problem that charmrun now passes openssh options still exists in
2.12b1 according to a quick check with the download:
NAMD_2.12b1_Linux-x86_64-ibverbs

scott

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 01:04:54PM -0500, Scott Brozell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A batch script that works correctly with previous versions of NAMD,
> 2.10, etc., is failing with 2.11.
>
> The initial error is due to a charmrun change to ssh for the default remote shell:
> Host key verification failed.
> Charmrun> Error 255 returned from remote shell (n72:0)
> ..
>
> Using ++remote-shell rsh or export CONV_RSH=rsh yields the same new failure:
> n75: invalid option -- 'o'
> usage: rsh [-nd] [-l login] host [command]
> Charmrun> Error 1 returned from remote shell (n75:0)
> ..
>
> Digging deeper the problem is that charmrun now passes openssh options:
> Charmrun> Starting rsh n75 -l me -o KbdInteractiveAuthentication=no -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost=yes /bin/bash -f
> ..
>
> For reference in 2.10:
> Charmrun> Starting rsh n19 -l me /bin/bash -f
>
> How can these invalid options be eliminated ?
>
>
> FWIW,
> This page doesn't contain a version or a change log that would show
> changes to defaults or show the need to tinker with the remote shell stuff:
> http://charm.cs.illinois.edu/manuals/html/charm++/C.html
> This page is clearly stale:
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/wiki/index.cgi?NamdKnownBugs
> This page is not as clearly stale; how about a date stamp or some other
> obvious clue that it is being maintained?
> http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/wiki/index.cgi?NamdTroubleshooting
>
> I recommend that your quality assurance and quality control processes
> be reviewed.
>
> thanks,
> scott
>

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