Privleges needed to add a node to ECS ?

[Steve92]

Hello,

To add a machine (from itself), as a node, to ECS (=inverse connection), please could you confirm that we must know the credentials of an admin user (sudo) on the ECS ?

It won’t be possible in our case because there are different admin teams:

– 1 central admin team for ECS

– 1 local admin for a business group of n machines

That means the local admin has to send to central admin n public keys of the machines of his group that have to be added as node to ECS ?

Central ECS admin will have to run this command for n public keys of nodes to add :

sudo /etc/NX/nxserver --keyadd path_to_node.localhost.id_rsa.pub


and then, local admin will be able to add his machines (nodes) to ECS, running, from each machine, this:

$ sudo /etc/NX/nxserver –serveradd IP_of_Cloud_Server –node-name NAME_of_NODE

No mean to specify IP address of the machine to add as a node, we have to be logged on it ?

Thanks,

Regards,

Steve.

 

[Britgirl]

When executing the --serveradd command, NoMachine verifies admin rights to access the CS by asking for a admin password. The next step is to add a public key, which gives it access to that host, assuming NoMachine is the admin of that host. By sending a public key as you mentioned, the admin verification is skipped, allowing you to add a node to the CS without requiring a sudo/admin password.

No mean to specify IP address of the machine to add as a node, we have to be logged on it ?

Yes, the node will be connecting to the CS; we do not have a specific node address

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