Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Recipes/Users

Timestamp:

07/02/2012 11:07:20 AM (6 years ago)

Author:

gmk

Comment:

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Recipes/Users

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+= User Management for Provisioned Nodes =
+Managing users on the nodes requires generally 2 stages. The first is making sure the users home directory and environment is present on the nodes. The second is getting the users credentials and user information to the nodes. 
+
+== User's environments ==
+This requires the home directory of the user(s) in question to be shared to the nodes. NFS is a typical solution for this, but because there are so many methods and variables for doing this we will make the assumption you have already done this in a manner that works for your environment.
+
+Once the user's home directory is present on the nodes, enabling passwordless ssh is as easy as generating a ssh keypair without a passphrase, and copying the public key to authorized_keys for each user as follows:
+
+{{{
+$ ssh-keygen
+$ cat ~/.ssh/*.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
+}}}
+
+== User credentials ==
+Managing users with the ''File'' Warewulf interface can be done as follows:
+
+{{{
+$ sudo su -
+# wwsh file import /etc/passwd
+# wwsh file import /etc/group
+# wwsh provision set --fileadd passwd,group
+}}}
+
+This will cause all nodes to have these two files provisioned when the boot, and updated within 5 minutes.
+
+Whenever updates are made to the password file (e.g. a user is added) to update the files within Warewulf, you must run:
+
+{{{
+$ sudo wwsh file sync
+}}}