Registering Ubuntu Clients
This section contains information about registering Salt clients running Ubuntu operating systems.
SUSE Manager supports Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS Clients using Salt. Traditional clients are not supported.
Supported features:
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Bootstrapping
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Synchronizing
.deb
channels -
Assigning
.deb
channels to clients -
GPG signing
.deb
repositories -
Information displayed in System details pages
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Package install, update, and remove
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Package install using
Package States
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Configuration and state channels
Bootstrapping is supported for starting Ubuntu clients and performing initial state runs such as setting repositories and performing profile updates.
However, the root user on Ubuntu is disabled by default, so in order to use bootstrapping, you will require an existing user with sudo
privileges for Python.
Some actions are not yet supported:
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Patch and errata support
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Bare metal installations, PXE booting, and virtual host provisioning
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Live patching
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CVE Audit
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If you use are using a repository from storage media (
server.susemanager.fromdir = …
option in rhn.conf), Ubuntu Client Tools will not work.
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Prepare to Register Ubuntu Clients
Some preparation is required before you can register Ubuntu clients to the SUSE Manager Server.
Before you begin, ensure you have the Ubuntu product enabled, and have synchronized the Ubuntu channels:
For Ubuntu 18.04:
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Product: Ubuntu Client 18.04
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Mandatory channels:
ubuntu-18.04-pool-amd64
For Ubuntu 16.04:
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Product: Ubuntu Client 16.04
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Mandatory channels:
ubuntu-16.04-pool-amd64
The mandatory channels do not contain Ubuntu upstream packages. The repositories and channels for synchronizing upstream content must be configured manually. |
Enable the Ubuntu Root User
The root user on Ubuntu is disabled by default.
You can enable it by editing the sudoers
file.
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On the client, edit the
sudoers
file:sudo visudo
Grant
sudo
access to the user by adding this line to thesudoers
file. Replace<user>
with the name of the user that will be used to bootstrap the client in the Web UI:<user> ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/python, /usr/bin/python2, /usr/bin/python3