New QuickStart guide

Stephen Gallagher sgallagh at redhat.com
Mon Mar 24 20:52:19 UTC 2014


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On 03/24/2014 10:00 AM, Radek Novacek wrote:
> On Mon 24 of Mar 2014 14:41:07 Tomáš Smetana wrote:
>> Hi, I have copied and formatted Russ' QuickStart here: 
>> http://www.openlmi.org/node/62
>> 
>> It should be less verbose and more up-to-date. Please review the
>> new text and once I stop receiving complaints and update requests
>> I'll replace the old QuickStart with this one.
>> 
>> Thanks and regards,
> 
> Hi,
> 
> good job, I like this brief version much more that the original
> one.
> 
> I would add few formatting changes for us 'tl;dr' folks - when
> reading this step-by-step tutorials I usually just copy&paste the
> code blocks and don't read the text around (especially when doing
> it repeatedly).
> 
> So, I would add code block in 'Remote Access' section saying
> 
> $ passwd pegasus
> 
> and highlight the 'Alternatively' in second bullet.
> 
> 
> I hope that more pages on OpenLMI.org will follow this simple and
> not-too- verbose style.
> 

Let's please scrap the reference to giving root access via Pegasus,
actually. It's not something we really want to encourage. I'd suggest
linking to http://www.openlmi.org/PegasusAccessControl instead, which
describes the manual approach of adding other users to the wbemNetwork
access or using FreeIPA HBAC to control access.

I made two minor corrections to the content:
1) I normalized all the commands to use # as the prompt, since they
really do need to be run as root. (The only exception being the 'lmi'
command at the end, but that was already using #)
2) The command to get the certificate was copying server.pem, but it
needs to be client.pem. The client.pem is the server certificate. In
older versions of pegasus in Fedora and RHEL, the two were the same
file (so it was working in our old guide), but in recent versions they
have diverged and client.pem should be used (which would have always
been correct).
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