xCAT/xcat-core
2
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core.git synced 2025-10-31 11:22:27 +00:00
Code Issues Releases Wiki Activity

Adding some minor formatting changes

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
Victor Hu
2018-09-06 16:51:45 -04:00
parent e6abe56c5d
commit 2f33ccbddf
1 changed files with 6 additions and 6 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

12
docs/source/advanced/restapi/restapi_setup/restapi_setup.rst
View File

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ To improve the security between the REST API clients and server, enabling the se
sudo apache2ctl -t -D DUMP_MODULES | grep ssl
apt-get install libjson-perl
.. note:: If use of non-secure HTTP protocol is required, edit ``/etc/httpd/conf.d/xcat-ws.conf`` for RHEL or ``/etc/apache2/conf.d/xcat-ws.conf`` for others and change `RewriteEngine On` to `RewriteEngine Off`, then restart httpd or apache.
.. note:: If use of non-secure HTTP protocol is required, edit ``/etc/httpd/conf.d/xcat-ws.conf`` for RHEL or ``/etc/apache2/conf.d/xcat-ws.conf`` for others and change ``RewriteEngine On`` to ``RewriteEngine Off``, then restart httpd or apache.
Enable the Certificate of HTTPs Server (Optional)
=================================================
@@ -88,9 +88,9 @@ User needs a username and password to access the REST API. When the REST API req
The account with key of **xcat** will be used for the REST API authentication. The username and password should be passed in as the attirbutes of URL:
* userName: Pass the username of the account
* userPW: Pass the password of the account (xCAT 2.10)
* password: Pass the password of the account (xCAT earlier than 2.10)
:userName: Pass the username of the account
:userPW: Pass the password of the account (xCAT 2.10)
:password: Pass the password of the account (xCAT earlier than 2.10)
You can use the root userid for your API calls, but we recommend you create a new userid (for example wsuser) for the API calls and give it the specific privileges you want it to have.
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Create new user and setup the password and policy rules. ::
# add user to policy table
mkdef -t policy 6 name=<wsuser> rule=allow
``Note:`` in the tabch command above you can put the salted password (from /etc/shadow) in the xCAT passwd table instead of the clear text password, if you prefer.
.. note:: Using the ``tabch`` command, you can use the salted password from ``/etc/shadow`` into the xCAT password table instead of a clear text password.
Identical user with the same name and uid need to be created on each compute node. ::
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ or if you did not set up the certificate: ::
You should see some output that includes your list of nodes.
If errors returned, check `/var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log` on xCAT MN.
If errors returned, check ``/var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log`` on xCAT MN.
.. note:: If passwords need to be changed in the future, make sure to update the xCAT passwd table. xCAT REST API uses passwords stored in that table to authenticate users.