MUNGE Uid 'N' Gid Emporium

Introduction

MUNGE (MUNGE Uid 'N' Gid Emporium) is an authentication service for creating and validating credentials. It is designed to be highly scalable for use in an HPC cluster environment. It allows a process to authenticate the UID and GID of another local or remote process within a group of hosts having common users and groups. These hosts form a security realm that is defined by a shared cryptographic key. Clients within this security realm can create and validate credentials without the use of root privileges, reserved ports, or platform-specific methods.

Documentation

• Overview
• Authentication Methods
• Credential Format
• Installation Guide
• Manual Pages
• Supported Platforms

News

Recent MUNGE news, including release announcements, is posted on the news page. To receive announcements by email, subscribe to the munge-announce mailing list or the freshmeat project listing.

Support

Questions, feature requests, and bug reports can be sent to the munge-users mailing list.

Download

MUNGE releases can be obtained from the download page. Changes between releases can be found in the release notes. Releases are signed with a GPG key.

Copyright

Written by Chris Dunlap <cdunlap@llnl.gov>.
Copyright © 2007 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
Copyright © 2002-2007 The Regents of the University of California.

MUNGE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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