[one-users] Picking certain fields /USER/NAME out of $USER[TEMPLATE]

[Steven Timm]

Thanks Carlos, looks like that will work.

Steve Timm


On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Carlos Martín Sánchez wrote:

> Hi,
> You can use $UNAME for the username, or $USER[ATTR] for an individual
> attribute of the user template [1].
> 
> Best regards
> 
> [1] http://docs.opennebula.org/4.10/user/virtual_machine_setup/cong.html
> 
> --
> Carlos Martín, MSc
> Project Engineer
> OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple
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> 
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Steven Timm <timm at fnal.gov> wrote:
>       Under OpenNebula 3.2 we would include in the
>       contextualization section the field $USER[TEMPLATE]
>       and then add a contextualization script such that
>       we would grab the field /USER/NAME out of the base64 encoded
>       template information.
>
>       In Opennebula 4.8 you can still put $USER[TEMPLATE]
>       into your contextualization but now there is a lot more junk
>       in $USER[TEMPLATE], namely all the key pairs that have been
>       created via ec2CreateKeyPair for each user.  At first we
>       did not know what was happening because $USER[TEMPLATE]
>       grew to over 300kb, a size that actually breaks bash! (you can't
>       assign a shell variable to a value that big).
>
>       So now the question is--is there a way to include only the
>       user name field of the template in the contextualization
>       section,
>       and nothing else, through some combination of ruby syntax.
>       If so, how?
>
>       Steve Timm
> 
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