how to set specific information

[Valérie GIVAUDAN]

It helps thank you!
Valérie

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----- Mail original -----
De: "Carsten Aulbert" <carsten.aulbert at aei.mpg.de>
À: "Valérie GIVAUDAN" <valerie.givaudan at lal.in2p3.fr>
Cc: "fully automatic installation for Linux" <linux-fai at uni-koeln.de>
Envoyé: Jeudi 2 Septembre 2021 11:22:18
Objet: Re: how to set specific information

Hi

On 02.09.21 11:16, Valérie GIVAUDAN wrote:
> Thank you for your answer.
> Yes I thought I could do this and so it pops up this question: FAi looks really very usefull but is it necessary to add in 50-host-classes every host I want to install ? I mean is there a way to read a file (for instance) with the different hosts name I want to install and fire FAI (instead of editing 50-host-classes )?

no, 50-host-classes is just for grouping your hosts into additional classes.

Depending on how you set the users, you could, for example, simply 
create  "scripts/DEFAULT/10_create_users.sh" script which does the following

case "$HOSTNAME" in
   name1) USERNAME=user1;;
   name2) USERNAME=user2;;
   *) USERNAME=''
esac

if [[ -z "$USERNAME" ]]
then
   adduser "$USERNAME" .....
fi


(Obviously probably too short script, but I hope that will help getting 
started - does it?)

Cheers

Carsten
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