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→PART 2: running privileged commands on remote machines
== PART 2: running privileged commands on remote machines ==
: <font color='red'><b>**WARNING** Run privileged commands incorrectly with sudo may cause irreparable damage to your remote machine.</b></font>
: We say that running an ad-hoc fab command is very similar to the SSH command with shell commands attached at the end. Let's try both with privileged commands, like the "yum" command.
= Lab Exercise: Create a Fabric task called makeUser() =
: Study the Fabric API run(), sudo(), local(), and put() and utilize them to create a new Fabric task called makeUser()
: The makeUser() task should perform the following on a remote machine to:
:* create a new user called "ops435p" with home directory "/home/ops435p".
:* add the new user to the sudo group called "wheel".
:* from your instructor, get the ssh public key which is posted on the internet to your controller workstation.:* add the ssh public key obtained from your instructor to the file named "authorized_keys" in the ~ops435p/.ssh directoryon the remote machine. (Note: Make sure that you set the proper ownership and permissions on both the directory ~ops435p/.ssh and the file "~ops435p/.ssh/authorized_keys.)
:Add the makeUser() to your final version of fabfile.py.
:Run the new task makeUser() on your VM.
