SchedulerException: Permission Denied

Wed, 20 May 2009 08:58:52 Z

Hi,

A service runs under UserX account. It can make the following call without any problem:

var scheduler = new Scheduler();
scheduler.Connect(gridHeadNodeName);

but when it actually submits a job

scheduler.SubmitJob(schedulerJob, UserXDomainName, UserXPassword);

the follwoing exception is thrown:

SchedulerException: Permission denied.
   at Microsoft.Hpc.Scheduler.Store.StoreServer.Task_AddTaskToJob(Int32 jobId, Int32&amp; taskId, StoreProperty[] taskProps)
   at Microsoft.Hpc.Scheduler.Store.JobEx.CreateTask(StoreProperty[] taskProperties)
   at Microsoft.Hpc.Scheduler.SchedulerTask.CreateTask(IClusterJob job, Int32 rootGroupId, Dictionary`2 taskGroupIdMapping)
   at Microsoft.Hpc.Scheduler.SchedulerJob.CreateJob()
   at Microsoft.Hpc.Scheduler.SchedulerJob.Submit(ISchedulerStore store, String username, String password)

The code worked last week and I'm wondering what rights disappeared that it stopped working. Any idea how I can figure out what rights are missing and how to add them?

Thanks

Pawel

SchedulerException: Permission Denied

Thu, 21 May 2009 05:53:10 Z

Ok , I solved the problem.

This is a (.NET Reflector) code snippet from JobQueryContext.ValidateCaller

  if (this._owner != ntIdentity.Name)

            {

                if (!new WindowsPrincipal(ntIdentity).IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator))

                {

                    return new CallResult(-2147220981);

                }

                base._role = CallerRole.AdminUser;

            }

The comparison is case sensitive and the check actually passes for the following values:
DOMAIN\user and DOMAIN\USER. My user is not in Administrator role and that's why I got "Permission Denied" error message. I don't know how the data got out of sync with the data in AD. I fixed the casing and all works fine.

I consider this a bug as the comparison should be case-insensitive . Windows treats user names in case-insensitive way thus I don't see why HPCScheduler should more strict.

Thanks

Pawel

SchedulerException: Permission Denied

Wed, 27 May 2009 15:04:52 Z

Hi Pawel

Thanks for root causing this for us! Yes, this is a bug in our code - we've checked this fix into the service pack branch, so it will be part of our SP1 release in a few weeks.

cheers
jeff