It does take some reading. The main doc page[1] has information plus several resources[2] here and there. Follow the instructions here[3] to install the puppetlabs repo so you can use yum. When you do "yum install puppet-dashboard", it creates the unix account. Do "grep puppet /etc/passwd" and you'll see the account there.
[1] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/manual/1.2/bootstrapping.html [2] http://www.how2centos.com/installing-puppet-dashboard-on-centos-5-5/ [3] http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_repositories.html LL ---- http://docs.puppetlabs.com/dashboard/manual/1.2/bootstrapping.html On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 4:10:20 AM UTC-7, Rajeev Iyer wrote: > > Hi, > > I am new to this. > > Can someone lead me to a step by step configuration for dashboard. The > ones on the web is too confusing. > Like, it says we need to have an entry for puppet-dashboard in > /etc/passwd. So how does that look like? > > Rajeev > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/HXm6GtfqG4cJ. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.