6:03 p.m.
Hi Auke
So just an update on the SSH provisioning. I tried "Customized Linux"
for the Platform and that didn't work.
Then I tried your other suggestion of "Aliyun Linux" and suddenly it was
accepting SSH connections (previously no SSH was working at all).
However it was still prompting for a password, despite the SSH
negotiation offering my key.
So then instead I tried `ssh aliyun@serverip` and lo and behold that
worked :)
Basically it seems that the admin user is called "aliyun" instead of
"clear" as in the case of AWS.
I see that now looking at the src of ucd-data-fetch.c
https://github.com/clearlinux/micro-config-drive/blob/master/src/ucd-data...
Chris
On 4/8/20 4:55 PM, Auke Kok wrote:
>
> The image is supposed to be provisioned to have the `clear` user that
> can remotely access the machine using the SSH key you provided. That
> is how micro-config-drive works for all these cloud cases. (AWS etc
> work this way).
>
> The user gets created dynamically at boot. You can even manually run
> this after boot and test it: `/usr/bin/ucd-data-fetch aliyun` as root
> should work. It also may provide some debug output explaining why it
> didn't create the `clear` user.
>
> Auke
>
>
> On 4/8/20 1:06 PM, Chris Milne wrote:
>> No worries. I might try a Customized or Aliyun Platform choice for
>> the next instance and see how that goes. Will report back if find
>> anything interesting 😀
>>
>> On a side note noticed this Ali image is slightly different from the
>> AWS one in at least one respect. That is it has a "root" user for
>> doing admin type things, whereas the AWS uses "clear" as a superuser.
>>
>> Was thinking of adding a "clear" user to keep things consistent,
>> though didn't know if there any edge cases I might miss doing so.
>>
>> Guessing the idea behind the "clear" admin user is better security
>> and foot gun protection for noobs like myself :p
>>
>> On 4/7/20 5:10 PM, Auke Kok wrote:
>>>
>>> I didn't get a reply back from one of our engineers who I worked
>>> with to enable micro-config-drive for Aliyun a while back. It is
>>> supposed to pick up the SSH key through a normal openstack-like HTTP
>>> fetch over IP (see https://github.com/clearlinux/micro-config-drive
>>> - for more info) and plant it in place. It's possible that indeed
>>> it's just as simple as choosing the right OS here would work
>>> (Customized Linux? Maybe even Aliyun?!).
>>>
>>>
>>> Glad it's working though!
>>>
>>>
>>> Auke
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/5/20 7:46 PM, Chris Milne wrote:
>>>> This is great. I was able to get it up and running with the new
>>>> 32750 image you sent over.
>>>>
>>>> The "ssh-key on instance install" didn't kick in, but
that's fine.
>>>> Just manually enabled root login for ssh (/etc/ssh/sshd_config) via
>>>> the web console and went from there to get keys copied over.
>>>>
>>>> The SSH install issue might be related to the image wizard. When I
>>>> was importing the custom image Aliyun asked me too specify the
>>>> Platform (a required field). Options were, CentOS, Ubuntu, CoreOS,
>>>> Aliyun, Debian, SUSE, OpenSUSE, FreeBSD, RedHat, Others Linux,
>>>> Customized Linux. I chose "Others Linux", but not sure it even
>>>> matters?
>>>>
>>>> Haven't had a chance yet to test everything with required installs
>>>> (python, etc), though so far it's looking promising
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again for the help :)
>>>>
>>>> On 4/5/20 1:27 PM, Nesius, Robert A wrote:
>>>>>> On Apr 5, 2020, at 8:41 AM, Chris Milne
<cmilne(a)mailfence.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Ahh. Thanks for the additional context.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rolling a custom image may indeed be beyond my pay grade. Perhaps
>>>>>> best then to wait and see what team come back with.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Obviously CL would be first prize because it's so performant,
>>>>>> minimalist and, and, and, Ok fine, I'll stop gushing ;)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That said, it sounds like running on Aliyun may or may not be a
>>>>>> priority right now, so not getting hopes up just yet.
>>>>> We do produce an Aliyun image, but it was based on requirements
>>>>> given to us from our colleagues over there and we don’t have
>>>>> validation of that image in our daily release activities.
>>>>> Consequently we don’t advertise it along with the rest of our
>>>>> validated images.
>>>>>
>>>>> But you could give it a try and let us know if it works:
>>>>>
https://download.clearlinux.org/releases/32750/clear/clear-32750-aliyun.i...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> If this works but would like an image baked differently you can
>>>>> modify the config file and use clr-installer to make your own.
>>>>>
https://download.clearlinux.org/releases/32750/clear/config/image/aliyun....
>>>>>
>>>>>
https://download.clearlinux.org/releases/32760/clear/config/image/README....
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -Rob
>>>>>
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