Setting fog's password

[Wayne Workman]

Also, if the storage node management pass doesn’t match what’s inside /opt/fog/.fogsettings when the installer runs, the installer will fix it then too.

[george1421]

[MOD Note] Forking topic since the issue doesn’t directly relate to this tutorial.

[dpotesta50]

@wayne-workman I need to figure something else out. I just do NOT understand FOG or Linux at all.

[Wayne Workman]

@dpotesta50 said in Resyncing FOG’s service account password:

We’re running 1.5.0.RC-8

Then in the ‘Getting FOG’ instructions, you need to use the dev-branch. dev-branch is currently 1.5 rc10.

[dpotesta50]

@wayne-workman We’re running 1.5.0.RC-8

[Wayne Workman]

@dpotesta50 said in Resyncing FOG’s service account password:

If I updated the FOG program to the latest version, will it resolve my password issues?

Yep.

[Wayne Workman]

@dpotesta50 said in Resyncing FOG’s service account password:

If the app I’m running is an older version, will this install the latest version of the installation files?

Yes, but ‘latest version’ lacks context here. Fog has branches, which is explained in the ‘Getting FOG’ article. The master branch has the latest stable version, which is 1.4.4 as of December 2017.

[dpotesta50]

@wayne-workman If the app I’m running is an older version, will this install the latest version of the installation files?

[Wayne Workman]

@dpotesta50 said in Resyncing FOG’s service account password:

Is what your instructing me to do just deleting the installation folder to rebuild it, or the actual installed application?

This is just the installation files. the actual FOG installation is literally all over the OS in lots of other places.

[dpotesta50]

@sebastian-roth The program itself is saying there is a newer version available for download. If I updated the FOG program to the latest version, will it resolve my password issues?

[Sebastian Roth]

@dpotesta50 said in Resyncing FOG’s service account password:

The FOG program I have installed needs updating

What do you mean by that?

[dpotesta50]

@wayne-workman The FOG program I have installed needs updating. Will doing this do the same as a re-installation would?

[dpotesta50]

@wayne-workman oh I don’t deny your advice at all and are grateful for your help. Believe me. VERY grateful. Is what your instructing me to do just deleting the installation folder to rebuild it, or the actual installed application?

[Wayne Workman]

@dpotesta50 Well my advice is solid, and all I can really do here is give you advice. Here’s the command to delete that directory:
sudo rm -rf /root/fogproject_git
After that, follow along with the “Getting FOG” article.

[dpotesta50]

@wayne-workman I really don’t want to do that. I did not set this up. The engineering before me did and it works for existing images. I just cant get new images uploaded to it. I’m afraid with my extreme lack of knowledge, deleting the directory will be catastrophic.

[Wayne Workman]

@dpotesta50 Just delete that directory and re-clone fog. Here are steps: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Getting_FOG

[dpotesta50]

@dpotesta50 said:

Okay got into the folder but on ours it’s /root/fogproject_git and there is no installfog.sh

Do you have /root/fogproject_git/bin/installfog.sh?

[Wayne Workman]

@dpotesta50 I don’t think there is any more context than what I gave. sudo -i is how to properly become root. Here’s a copy of the manual for the sudo command: https://linux.die.net/man/8/sudo Look at the -i argument. It properly simulates a login. If you don’t pass a username argument, root is assumed.
You can learn Linux for free from internet sources, there are lots of tutorials (and this is how I learned mostly). For paid resources, I’d recommend acloud.guru https://acloud.guru/learn/lpic-1 (which I’ve also went through recently).

[dpotesta50]

@wayne-workman I’m sorry I literally know nothing about linux. What’s the context of that “sudo -i” command?

[Wayne Workman]

@dpotesta50 You should do all this stuff as root. Become root properly with this command: sudo -i