# General Discussion **URL:** https://discourse.openondemand.org/c/general-discussion/5.md?page=2 [Latest](https://discourse.openondemand.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://discourse.openondemand.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://discourse.openondemand.org/tags.md) **Page:** 3 --- ## [Can't seem to get beyond the basic login screen message](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/cant-seem-to-get-beyond-the-basic-login-screen-message/4281)
**Author:** [@narspin](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/narspin)\ **Replies:** 20\ **Last updated:** [June 3, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/cant-seem-to-get-beyond-the-basic-login-screen-message/4281 "2025-06-03T18:07:38Z")
Hello, While I have been working in HPC for a while now, I have to admit to being a complete newbie with Open on Demand. I have successfully installed OOD, but the authentication part is something which has been problem… --- ## [Using OpenOndemandOrg pictures in presentations?](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/using-openondemandorg-pictures-in-presentations/4247)
**Author:** [@gshamov](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/gshamov)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 13, 2025, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/using-openondemandorg-pictures-in-presentations/4247 "2025-05-13T17:25:25Z")
Hi All, A non-technical question for OOD creators: is it allowed to use materials from the OOD website in presentations (say, for user training events) without change, but with a URL link provided? Some materials there… --- ## [Restricting the port range used by matlab-proxy?](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/restricting-the-port-range-used-by-matlab-proxy/4226)
**Author:** [@larsonmattr](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/larsonmattr)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 2, 2025, 7:48pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/restricting-the-port-range-used-by-matlab-proxy/4226 "2025-05-02T19:48:01Z")
We are trying the MATLAB-proxy app and have setup a virtual environment with the project code from https://github.com/mathworks/matlab-proxy and are using this configuration for our OOD application (GitHub - wright-cemrc… --- ## [Tip: Add the allowed directories as shortcuts in the file explorer](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/tip-add-the-allowed-directories-as-shortcuts-in-the-file-explorer/2448)
**Author:** [@simonleary-umass-edu](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/simonleary-umass-edu)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 18, 2025, 3:38pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/tip-add-the-allowed-directories-as-shortcuts-in-the-file-explorer/2448 "2025-04-18T15:38:39Z")
If you’re me, then you set a whitelist of directories to be accessible by OOD. https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/latest/customization.html#block-or-allow-directory-access pun\_custom\_env: OOD\_ALLOWLIST\_PATH: "/w… --- ## [GOOD 2025 Recap: Resources for Using MATLAB with Open OnDemand](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/good-2025-recap-resources-for-using-matlab-with-open-ondemand/4194)
**Author:** [@nickchoi-mw](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/nickchoi-mw)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 14, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/good-2025-recap-resources-for-using-matlab-with-open-ondemand/4194 "2025-04-14T17:09:09Z")
Hi everyone, As many of you are aware, the first-ever GOOD (Global Open OnDemand) Conference was held about a month ago at Harvard University. If you were there, perhaps you had a chance to attend the talk that Lisa Kem… --- ## [Correct way to specify openssl\_verify\_mode for support\_ticket](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/correct-way-to-specify-openssl-verify-mode-for-support-ticket/4167)
**Author:** [@bviviano](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/bviviano)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 10, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/correct-way-to-specify-openssl-verify-mode-for-support-ticket/4167 "2025-04-10T15:10:07Z")
Hello, We’re trying to configure the support\_ticket capability for our OOD 3.1.10 deployment. We have postfix running on our OOD portal node listening on localhost:25 only, then configured to relay to our main SMTP ser… --- ## [GOOD - OOD Community en Español](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/good-ood-community-en-espanol/4079)
**Author:** [@berbesie](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/berbesie)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2025, 8:39am UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/good-ood-community-en-espanol/4079 "2025-03-25T08:39:20Z")
Hi all, I’ll be attending Global OOD Conference and I am wondering if there is any Spanish speakers attending as well?? I am looking to start an OOD Community en español. Let me know if you are interested… --- ## [The Open OnDemand Community | Open OnDemand web page](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/the-open-ondemand-community-open-ondemand-web-page/4115)
**Author:** [@sjm](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/sjm)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 13, 2025, 8:03pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/the-open-ondemand-community-open-ondemand-web-page/4115 "2025-03-13T20:03:54Z")
Hi Great to see the King’s College London link on the The Open OnDemand Community | Open OnDemand page, thanks! Please could it be directed to https://docs.er.kcl.ac.uk that is the landing page for the department respo… --- ## [GOOD Talk - Initializers, call for collaborators](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/good-talk-initializers-call-for-collaborators/4076)
**Author:** [@snowbird294](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/snowbird294)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/good-talk-initializers-call-for-collaborators/4076 "2025-02-26T17:55:39Z")
Hi all, I am presenting in the Global OOD Conference on the topic of initializers, and I’m looking to showcase other examples. My own examples were absolutely “borrowed” from Discourse at large with some tweaks for our s… --- ## [New to HPC and Open OnDemand](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/new-to-hpc-and-open-ondemand/3428)
**Author:** [@Pete](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/Pete)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/new-to-hpc-and-open-ondemand/3428 "2025-02-25T21:13:02Z")
I’m a Linux administrator for my University. A professor purchased two Lambda servers for AI research and asked if I could install Open OnDemand. I said yes thinking it was just another “yum/apt install” request. After… --- ## [AllowEncodedSlashes](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/allowencodedslashes/4056)
**Author:** [@davide-q](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/davide-q)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 19, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/allowencodedslashes/4056 "2025-02-19T20:27:06Z")
Because of this issue \[1, 2\] a user has requested me to enable AllowEncodedSlashes in OnDemand. Oddly enough, I have found no one discussing this topic here and I was wondering if is there a better OnDemand way than ju… --- ## [Accessing to an external cluster from OOD](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/accessing-to-an-external-cluster-from-ood/4049)
**Author:** [@hadros](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/hadros)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/accessing-to-an-external-cluster-from-ood/4049 "2025-02-14T14:35:58Z")
Hi, Until now we have been dealing with local clusters, and the nodes with OOD are also Slurm clients. I was wondering if there is a way to expose external clusters managed by an independent institution in OOD. Thank y… --- ## [Access to CLI once in OOD](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/access-to-cli-once-in-ood/4027)
**Author:** [@Toan.Trac](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/Toan.Trac)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 11, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/access-to-cli-once-in-ood/4027 "2025-02-11T14:04:05Z")
New here and trying to learn more on OOD. So lets say a user authenticated via SSO and gets into the portal. From there how are users accessing the back-end server running Linux? Do they provide the credential again? … --- ## [VSCode Showcase with Support for the Official Microsoft Version](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/vscode-showcase-with-support-for-the-official-microsoft-version/3938)
**Author:** [@nvonwolf](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/nvonwolf)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [December 19, 2024, 4:38am UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/vscode-showcase-with-support-for-the-official-microsoft-version/3938 "2024-12-19T04:38:53Z")
Hi All, Back in 2022 I posted a showcase of a Visual Studio Code interactive app using Coder’s code-server. This app has worked out really well for us and his receive minor updates over the last few years. However, wit… --- ## [Install / upgrade workflow](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/install-upgrade-workflow/3913)
**Author:** [@davide-q](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/davide-q)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [December 11, 2024, 10:03pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/install-upgrade-workflow/3913 "2024-12-11T22:03:37Z")
Following up the brief discussion from yesterday during the Tips and Tricks meeting. Currently I run OpenOnDemand on one of my login node, installed as RPM with dnf and started/stopped with systemctl. It has its configu… --- ## [K8s Common Auth Layer for Apps](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/k8s-common-auth-layer-for-apps/3851)
**Author:** [@nathan.l.carlson](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/nathan.l.carlson)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 6, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/k8s-common-auth-layer-for-apps/3851 "2024-11-06T22:19:27Z")
Hi, I’ve setup a Jupyter app to be deployed to a K8s cluster and have been working on an RStudio app. It seems that each app will rely on the individual software’s auth mechanisms. I’ve found RStudio’s auth mechanisms t… --- ## [NAIRR SGX3 Survey](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/nairr-sgx3-survey/3822)
**Author:** [@moffatsadeghi](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/moffatsadeghi)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 18, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/nairr-sgx3-survey/3822 "2024-10-18T14:56:25Z")
Please see the message below from SGX3 concerning the NAIRR Portal survey. Thank you. Dear colleagues, The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) is set to revolutionize AI research accessibility in… --- ## [Drona Composer: app to assist users in creating/submitting jobs](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/drona-composer-app-to-assist-users-in-creating-submitting-jobs/3801)
**Author:** [@pennings](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/pennings)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 8, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/drona-composer-app-to-assist-users-in-creating-submitting-jobs/3801 "2024-10-08T17:25:43Z")
We, at TAMU HPRC, have been working on an app, Drona Composer, that assists/guides a researcher to create and submit various types of jobs. The researcher provides answers to job-specific questions, and the app will gene… --- ## [MathWorks Licensing for HPC Centers and Community Portals](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/mathworks-licensing-for-hpc-centers-and-community-portals/3711)
**Author:** [@lisakemp](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/lisakemp)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 20, 2024, 9:39pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/mathworks-licensing-for-hpc-centers-and-community-portals/3711 "2024-08-20T21:39:00Z")
Administrators of MathWorks software (MATLAB): Recently, MathWorks announced a transition to named user licensing from concurrent licenses that applies to Campus-Wide Licenses at universities. We received feedback from … --- ## [Open OnDemand Chat Interface](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/open-ondemand-chat-interface/3573)
**Author:** [@brandonbiggs](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/brandonbiggs)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 6, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/open-ondemand-chat-interface/3573 "2024-08-06T20:39:28Z")
Hello all, I’m happy to say I can finally share the OnDemand chat interface I’ve been working on for some time. This is a frontend only, OpenAI API streaming/RAG compatible, chat interface for Open OnDemand. This is mea… --- ## [Ruby learning resources for undergrads](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/ruby-learning-resources-for-undergrads/3574)
**Author:** [@RonRahaman](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/RonRahaman)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 18, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/ruby-learning-resources-for-undergrads/3574 "2024-06-18T16:13:10Z")
Hi all, We’ve got an undergrad who’ll be helping contribute new OOD apps for our site. They have experience with JavaScript, UNIX, and other good skills, but Ruby is new to them. Do you have any good resources to reco… --- ## [KerberizedNFS with OOD](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/kerberizednfs-with-ood/3554)
**Author:** [@DartCleek](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/DartCleek)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 14, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/kerberizednfs-with-ood/3554 "2024-06-14T22:20:49Z")
Hello, We are in the process of configuring our open on demand instance but we use kerberos nfs, rhel8,we are running into issues with it, we are in the process of working through some things and believe we may have fou… --- ## [What's the most outlandish device you've used to access Open OnDemand?](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/whats-the-most-outlandish-device-youve-used-to-access-open-ondemand/3328)
**Author:** [@davidecarlson](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/davidecarlson)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [March 6, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/whats-the-most-outlandish-device-youve-used-to-access-open-ondemand/3328 "2024-03-06T15:24:45Z")
I’m giving a webinar tomorrow on using OOD for the Ookami HPC cluster, and I’m trying to thinking of silly and outlandish ways that I can demonstrate (or at least mention) accessing OOD. Has anyone used OOD on a Kindle?… --- ## [Sub-Apps that extend a base app](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/sub-apps-that-extend-a-base-app/3404)
**Author:** [@hansen-m](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/hansen-m)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/sub-apps-that-extend-a-base-app/3404 "2024-04-05T18:38:57Z")
Using sub-apps, can attribute values be provided that don’t exist in the base app? And if not, any workarounds like setting hidden values? https://osc.github.io/ood-documentation/latest/how-tos/app-development/interacti… --- ## [Invert/show behavior for dynamic form widget data-option-for](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/invert-show-behavior-for-dynamic-form-widget-data-option-for/3407)
**Author:** [@hansen-m](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/hansen-m)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/invert-show-behavior-for-dynamic-form-widget-data-option-for/3407 "2024-04-05T18:38:28Z")
Does data-option-for- support the inverse behavior if set to true? Or is there another way to do this? Or is this a feature request? For example, only showing a a specific partition option if a specific account value is… --- ## [Putty like experience with MFA](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/putty-like-experience-with-mfa/3367)
**Author:** [@maestro7879](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/maestro7879)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2024, 12:41pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/putty-like-experience-with-mfa/3367 "2024-03-21T12:41:51Z")
Is it possible for users to connect to a node using Putty or even the headnode ? We are currently using Okta for authentication/MFA. The goal is to provide access via Putty and also have MFA (Probably DUO). Has this b… --- ## [Website bug: user\_map\_match](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/website-bug-user-map-match/3327)
**Author:** [@NathanielMiddleton](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/NathanielMiddleton)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [March 5, 2024, 9:21pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/website-bug-user-map-match/3327 "2024-03-05T21:21:39Z")
Looks like there is a minor bug in 2. Setup User Mapping — Open OnDemand 3.1.0 documentation text: “Versions prior to 2.0 relied on user\_map\_cmd to do this. Since 2.0 you should use the simpler and faster user\_map\_match.… --- ## [Upgrade from 3.0.1 to 3.0.3 fails](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/upgrade-from-3-0-1-to-3-0-3-fails/3288)
**Author:** [@malingoj](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/malingoj)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [February 26, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/upgrade-from-3-0-1-to-3-0-3-fails/3288 "2024-02-26T14:27:20Z")
Hi - it’s me, again! So I have a peculiar one. I had OOD 3.0.1 installed and after upgrading to 3.0.3 I get this message: (having to type this manually because it won’t let me copy/paste it - hopefully I don’t typo) E… --- ## [Preventing a JS Attack?](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/preventing-a-js-attack/3264)
**Author:** [@multimeric](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/multimeric)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/preventing-a-js-attack/3264 "2024-02-14T01:08:43Z")
Inspired by this issue, I’ve been thinking about OnDemand’s security measures. Specifically I’m worried about a scenario where a malicious or compromised user who has access to OnDemand starts any web server with user-de… --- ## [Job Opportunity at Tufts University - HPC Systems Engineer](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/job-opportunity-at-tufts-university-hpc-systems-engineer/3255)
**Author:** [@DelilahYM](https://discourse.openondemand.org/u/DelilahYM)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [February 7, 2024, 7:30pm UTC](https://discourse.openondemand.org/t/job-opportunity-at-tufts-university-hpc-systems-engineer/3255 "2024-02-07T19:30:58Z")
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