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admin-cookbook

Tracto admin cookbook​

Welcome to the Tracto Administration Cookbook.

This notebook is designed as a guide for administrators. It includes practical examples and solutions for managing and maintaining a cluster. Each section provides step-by-step instructions for typical administrative tasks.

Create new user​

import uuid

user_name = f"test_user_to_be_deleted_{uuid.uuid4()}"

create_user_command = "yt create user --attr '{name=%s; acl=[{action=allow; subjects=[universe-admins]; permissions=[write;administer;remove]}]}'" % user_name

!{create_user_command}

Set password.

user_password = f"some_big_and_secure_password_{uuid.uuid4}"
set_password_command = "yt set-user-password %s --new-password %s" % (user_name, user_password)

!{set_password_command}

Create homedir

!yt create map_node //home/{user_name}

Create group​

group_name = f"group_to_be_deleted_{uuid.uuid4()}"

!yt create group --attributes '{name=%s}' %s group_name

Add user to group​

# set user and group

user_name = user_name
group_name = group_name

!yt add-member {my_user} {my_group}