Thread: lava -- user is deleted

I am using a recent kusu release:

Code:

[root@master ~]# cat /etc/kusu-release
Kusu "Kramat" 0.10 (build 3520)

But I recognized that the lavaadmin user which was added by the lava kit gets deleted on reboot on my system.

I added a user myself to /etc/passwd with useradd and it got deleted too...

Did I somehow mess up my setup or is this a bug?

Does the cfm tool rewrite the passwd file? Nevertheless lava should no where to add lavaadmin

Hi,

This may be a bug with cfm. Please help us file a bug[1] and we can look into this.

We have tested a normal useradd, followed by a reboot. The user account was not deleted.

-Liming
[1] System Dashboard - Open Source Grid Development Center

I do not understand yet how this is supposed to work. and my /etc/passwd get overwritten on every boot.

I have the following:

Code:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Oct  8 15:34 /etc/cfm/compute-centos-5-x86_64/etc/passwd -> /etc/passwd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Oct  8 15:34 /etc/cfm/compute-diskless-centos-5-x86_64/etc/passwd -> /etc/passwd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Oct  8 15:34 /etc/cfm/compute-imaged-centos-5-x86_64/etc/passwd -> /etc/passwd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Oct  8 15:34 /etc/cfm/installer-centos-5-x86_64/etc/passwd -> /etc/passwd

Code:

[root@master ~]# ls -l /etc/passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1579 Oct 13 09:09 /etc/passwd

and the following:

Code:

[root@master ~]# ls -l /opt/kusu/cfm/*/etc/passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 910 Oct 13 09:10 /opt/kusu/cfm/1/etc/passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 910 Oct 13 09:10 /opt/kusu/cfm/2/etc/passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 910 Oct 13 09:10 /opt/kusu/cfm/3/etc/passwd
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 910 Oct 13 09:10 /opt/kusu/cfm/4/etc/passwd

The content looks like BASE64 encoded, but I cannot decode it with base64 ...

Code:

[root@master ~]# cat /opt/kusu/cfm/4/etc/passwd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Sadly my system clock is a little flacky as my installer node currently is a virtual machine...

Originally Posted by _fmms_

I do not understand yet how this is supposed to work. and my /etc/passwd get overwritten on every boot.

...
The content looks like BASE64 encoded, but I cannot decode it with base64 ...

Ok I found out that the content is openssl encoded and got it decoded.

My /etc/passwd is in fact overriden by /opt/kusu/cfm/*/etc/passwd, how does cfm decide what to overwrite?

I set DEBUG to 1 and got the following in /tmp/cfm.log:

Code:

ERROR:  Installers not specified
INFO:  Forcing update of all files.
Updating Files
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access
Updating file: /etc/fstab.append
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access
Combining: /opt/kusu/etc//etc/fstab.OS and /etc/fstab.append to /etc/fstab
Updating file: /etc/hosts.equiv
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access
Updating file: /etc/passwd
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access
Updating file: /etc/group
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access
Updating file: /etc/hosts
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access
Updating file: /etc/shadow
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access
Updating file: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access
Updating file: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access
Updating file: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.pub
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access
Updating file: /etc/ssh/ssh_config
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access
Updating file: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access
Updating file: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key.pub
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access
Updating file: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access
Running plugin: /opt/kusu/lib/plugins/cfmclient/S01mountall.sh
Running plugin: /opt/kusu/lib/plugins/cfmclient/S02KusuAutomount.sh
Running plugin: /opt/kusu/lib/plugins/cfmclient/lava-restart
Updating Packages
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access
Nothing to remove
Nothing to add
Running plugin: /opt/kusu/lib/plugins/cfmclient/S01mountall.sh
Running plugin: /opt/kusu/lib/plugins/cfmclient/S02KusuAutomount.sh
Running plugin: /opt/kusu/lib/plugins/cfmclient/lava-restart
Updating Files
++  Testing for: /opt/kusu/cfm/cfmfiles.lst
++  CFMBaseDir: /opt/kusu/cfm
++  NGID = 1
INFO:  Have local Access

ltsai: Do you have something more for me to try, or do you want me to open a bugreport now?

Maybe I am just using something wrong ...

Please go ahead and file a bug.

Thanks,
Liming

I have been playing for several hours now with it. And just now it started to work. (without actually changing anything)

I will report back if it stop working...

Thanks and sorry for the noise

Not a problem. Let us know if you run into further problems.

Sadly this appeared again, but a plain cfmsync -f does work fine and updates my files as expected. On reboot it breaks but this is due to the really bad clock of my vmware afaik.

I am still not sure what would have been the best for updating, see:
How to update the base kit to 1.0?