Hi Steve, Yes, that page has some good examples.
Possibly the example most applicable is: --------------------------------- sync the multiple files /etc/file1, /etc/file2, /etc/file3, ... to the directory /tmp/etc (/tmp/etc must be a directory when multiple files are synced at one time). If the directory does not exist, xdcp will create it. /etc/file1 /etc/file2 /etc/file3 -> /tmp/etc --------------------------------- The great thing about synclists is that you can rerun them with “updatenode <nodename or group> -F” when you’ve updated the files to resync. Kind Regards, Laurence Horrocks-Barlow MBCS HPC Storage Architect OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200 Fax: +44 (0)114 257 0022 Web: www.ocf.co.uk<http://www.ocf.co.uk/> Blog: blog.ocf.co.uk<http://blog.ocf.co.uk/> Twitter: @ocfplc<http://twitter.com/#%21/ocfplc> OCF plc is a company registered in England and Wales. Registered number 4132533, VAT number GB 780 6803 14. Registered office address: OCF plc, 5 Rotunda Business Centre, Thorncliffe Park, Chapeltown, Sheffield, S35 2PG. This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. "It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done." -- Sir Terry Pratchett From: Stephen Cousins [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 20 June 2015 00:02 To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: Re: [xcat-user] user management Hi Laurence, Thanks a lot. I'll take a look at how to set up a synclist file. I found: http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Sync-ing_Config_Files_to_Nodes/#the-synclist-file which looks like it talks about this. Thanks again, Steve On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Laurence Horrocks-Barlow <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: xCAT doesn't manage the users it's self however provides postscripts to help with this. For smaller clusters I would recommend using synclists to synchronise the common passwd, group and shadow files. For anything larger LDAP or AD would be my recommendation (preferably in a HA/sync’ed configuration) and then use postscripts to configure the LDAP settings on the node. Kind Regards, Laurence Horrocks-Barlow MBCS HPC Storage Architect OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200<tel:%2B44%20%280%29114%20257%202200> Fax: +44 (0)114 257 0022<tel:%2B44%20%280%29114%20257%200022> Web: www.ocf.co.uk<http://www.ocf.co.uk/> Blog: blog.ocf.co.uk<http://blog.ocf.co.uk/> Twitter: @ocfplc<http://twitter.com/#%21/ocfplc> OCF plc is a company registered in England and Wales. Registered number 4132533, VAT number GB 780 6803 14. Registered office address: OCF plc, 5 Rotunda Business Centre, Thorncliffe Park, Chapeltown, Sheffield, S35 2PG. This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. "It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done." -- Sir Terry Pratchett From: Stephen Cousins [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: 19 June 2015 22:39 To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: [xcat-user] user management I'm curious about how users are managed in xCAT. I haven't been able to find much information on the wiki. I have a Stateless cluster but the nodes don't seem to inherit the user accounts that are on the management node. I have the /home directory NFS mounted but it just shows the ID's instead of usernames. Do I need to manually synchronize the node /etc/passwd, group and shadow files? Or is it expected that LDAP is used? Thanks, Steve ________________________________ [http://static.avast.com/emails/avast-mail-stamp.png]<https://www.avast.com/antivirus> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. www.avast.com<https://www.avast.com/antivirus> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user -- ________________________________________________________________ Steve Cousins Supercomputer Engineer/Administrator Advanced Computing Group University of Maine System 244 Neville Hall (UMS Data Center) (207) 561-3574 Orono ME 04469 steve.cousins at maine.edu<http://maine.edu> --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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