Re: [xcat-user] What is the best way for changing/maintain users/groups/passwords for the computing nodes?

2018-06-19 Thread Daniel Hilst Selli
Hi Kevin, Using LDAP would really be the best option here. Usually I don't have an available LDAP installation for using but installing would not be that hard. Thanks! Cheers, On Mon, 2018-06-18 at 13:45 -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: > The system key will only work to set up one user (usually root

Re: [xcat-user] What is the best way for changing/maintain users/groups/passwords for the computing nodes?

2018-06-18 Thread Kevin Keane
The system key will only work to set up one user (usually root). For ordinary users, you can use synchronization to copy the group/shadow/passwd files, but that's usually a bad idea because it also clobbers the root password, and it requires resyncing (or even rebooting compute nodes) every time a

[xcat-user] What is the best way for changing/maintain users/groups/passwords for the computing nodes?

2018-06-18 Thread Daniel Hilst Selli
Hi! I had a problem where I couldn't login to a computing node with the password contained at system key of passwd table. I search in the internet for options on setting password for xcat. The documentation says chtab key=system passwd.username=root passwd.password=abc123 But I don't really u