[Planetlab-devel] Re: problem #1 (with myplc 0.5-5)

[Lee Breslau]

Stephen,

Thanks.  That looks pretty clear.  One question -- is login_base just 
the slice prefix?  So for our site on the public PlanetLab it  is 'att'?

Lee

Stephen Soltesz wrote:
> Hello, Lee,
>
> I've forwarded this to the devel list for posterity.  I'm sure others 
> may have a similar question at some point in the future.
>
> I see two questions:
>
> 1) how to add a site (to add a user).
> 2) how to log into the machine (either as site_admin or a new user)
>
> Please let me know if I've missed something.
>
> 1)
> Unfortunately, it's not a current feature to add sites through the web 
> interface.  Instead, this is done manually through the API.  If you've 
> never done this before it may be a little weird, but it should be 
> straight forward.
>
> Start python:
>
>    $ python
>    >>> from xmlrpclib import Server
>    >>> XMLRPC_SERVER="https://boot.planet-lab.org/PLCAPI/"
>    >>> plc = Server(XMLRPC_SERVER, verbose=False, allow_none=True)
>    >>> auth = {'Username': '', 'AuthMethod': 'password', 'AuthString': 
> ''}
>
> Where you add the string for Username with the email address of the 
> administrative account for the system, and 'AuthString' with the clear 
> text password.  The default is root at localhost.localdomain, with 
> password of 'root'.
>
> Therefore, the default auth structure would be:
>
>    >>> auth = {'Username': 'root at localhost.localdomain', 'AuthMethod': 
> 'password', 'AuthString': 'root'}
>
> Then you will invoke a call on the api, using this authorization.
>
>    >>> plc.AddSite(auth, {'name': '',
>                           'url': '',
>                           'enabled': True ,
>                           'max_slices': 10,
>                           'login_base': '',
>                           'is_public': True,
>                           'abbreviated_name': ''})
>
> The number that's returned from the call is the site id for your new 
> site.
>
> The 'is_public' attribute determines whether or not the site is 
> visible on the 'Add Users' form.  The default site has this set to 
> false, and it gets reset at restart.
>
> 2)
> Each user account has an associated ssh public key.  For a given site, 
> only those users that are also Technical contacts have their ssh keys 
> copied to the site_admin account.  It sounds like you know the steps 
> for loading an ssh key with an account, I would just try adding the 
> Technical Contact role to the account you're trying to use with the 
> site_admin login.
>
> Please let me know if these directions are helpful, and please let me 
> know if you have any other questions.
>
> Thank you,
> Stephen.
>
>