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Chapter 8
Platform-Specific Information

The HTCondor Team strives to make HTCondor work the same way across all supported platforms. However, because HTCondor is a very low-level system which interacts closely with the internals of the operating systems on which it runs, this goal is not always possible to achieve. The following sections provide detailed information about using HTCondor on different computing platforms and operating systems.

 8.1 Linux
  8.1.1 Linux Address Space Randomization
 8.2 Microsoft Windows
  8.2.1 Limitations under Windows
  8.2.2 Supported Features under Windows
  8.2.3 Secure Password Storage
  8.2.4 Executing Jobs as the Submitting User
  8.2.5 The condor_credd Daemon
  8.2.6 Executing Jobs with the User’s Profile Loaded
  8.2.7 Using Windows Scripts as Job Executables
  8.2.8 How HTCondor for Windows Starts and Stops a Job
  8.2.9 Security Considerations in HTCondor for Windows
  8.2.10 Network files and HTCondor
  8.2.11 Interoperability between HTCondor for Unix and HTCondor for Windows
  8.2.12 Some differences between HTCondor for Unix -vs- HTCondor for Windows
 8.3 Macintosh OS X
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