My goal is to use standard AMI so that upgrading to new FreeBSD releases
is easy without a manual process to build a new custom AMI each time.
I've submitted a patch to saltstack which allows the bootstrap process
to work without sudo on a clean FreeBSD AMI. On Linux the bootstrap
script is run with sudo and obviously that doesn't work on a fresh
FreeBSD install.
https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/pull/1581
Thanks for everyone's help, especially Andriy who pointed out that I was
missing the fundamental difference between:
$ su - -c bootstrap.sh
$ su -l root -c bootstrap.sh
The first one uses the fact that root is the default, but then -c is an
su command which specifies the user class and so will fail. The second
actually passes "-c bootstrap.sh" to the shell because an explicit
username effectively ends the 'su' command and everything after passed
to the shell. On Linux, the -c is an su command which passes the next
param to the shell so the -c is never itself passed to the shell and so
both variations work over there although inn fundamentally different ways.
I just hope that in 5 years from now I can find this mailing list post
when I completely forgot the whole thing and can't figure how to make it
work...
Ari
On 19/8/21 4:34pm, Jonathan Chen wrote:
On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 18:25, Aristedes Maniatis <a...@ish.com.au> wrote:
That would require root to put the file there and then to reboot the
machine.
In which case, wouldn't it be simpler to just start a new instance,
install your packages by hand, and then take a snapshot of the volume
and convert it to a custom AMI instead? That way all new instances
from your custom AMI will be preconfigured with the required packages.
Cheers.
