Adding new users with ignition

[Gerben Venekamp]

Dear all,

I am trying to add a new user to coreos through ignition. However, I am failing at this. My config file looks like this:

{
    "ignition": {
        "version": "2.0.0"
    },
    "passwd": {
        "users": [{
            "name": "johndoe",
            "create": [{
                "uid": "1000",
                "homeDir": "/home/johndoe",
                "noCreateHome": "no",
                "primaryGroup": "users",
                "groups": [
                    "sudo",
                    "docker"
                ],
                "shell": "/bin/bash"
            }],
            "groups": [
                "sudo",
                "docker"
            ],
            "passwordHash": "$6$5s2u6/jR$unvWnqilcgaHNB3MkxYv6mTlWfOqCYHZmfim3LDKVltj.E8XNKEcwWm...",
            "sshAuthorizedKeys": ["ssh-rsa xxxxx ==joh...@example.org"]
        }]
    }
}

Any help with this would be appreciated,
Gerben

[kyle....@coreos.com]

Hi Gerben,

There are a few errors in your ignition config causing failure. uid shouldn't be a string and nocreatehome should be an unquoted bool. The group defined for primaryGroup is invalid, "users" does not exist by default on CoreOS, if you wish to use it you'll need to create it first. create is not an array and the second groups shouldn't be nested under users. Please take a look at the ignition configuration specification for more details. 

Here's an example of a valid config for adding a user: 

{

"ignition": {

"version": "2.0.0"

},

"passwd": {

"users": [{

"name": "johndoe",

"create": {

"uid": 1000,

"homeDir": "/home/johndoe",

"groups": [

"sudo",

"docker"

],

"shell": "/bin/bash" 

}

}]

}

}

Cheers,

Kyle Brown

[Gerben Venekamp]

Thanks. It got me going.

Gerben