Preparing additional servers

[jmarcelletti]

In order to allow communication between the control panel server and additional servers, you need to create a cheetah user and copy over the public key from the control panel.

The two methods listed below will produce the same output. The automated process should work for everyone, however manual instructions are listed below in the event of unexpected results.

Automated Process:
Login as root to the new server.

Issue the following command:

/usr/local/cheetah/scripts/misc/init_server.php

You will be prompted for the IP address of the control panel and your root password.

Manual Process:

useradd cheetah --shell /sbin/nologin
mkdir -p ~cheetah/.ssh
touch ~cheetah/.ssh/authorized_keys2
chown cheetah:cheetah ~cheetah/.ssh/authorized_keys2
chmod 600 ~cheetah/.ssh/authorized_keys2
chown cheetah:cheetah ~cheetah/.ssh
chmod 700 ~cheetah/.ssh

nano -w ~cheetah/.ssh/authorized_keys2

Here you should paste the contents of ~cheetah/.ssh/id_rsa.pub from the control panel.

Save and exit (ctrl+x, yes to save changed, enter to confirm file name)