CLI utility installation

Server requirements:

  • OS Debian 8 or Debian 9 with amd64 architecture

  • Python 2.7

Packages installation

# apt update && apt install yeti-cli

Configuration

To configure yeti-cli parameters edit /etc/yeti/yeti-cli.yml file

Create yeti-cli.yml file with the following content:

nodes_url: 'http://localhost:6666/api/rest/system/nodes.json'
authentificator_url: 'http://localhost:6666/api/rest/system/admin_users.json?q[ssh_key_present]=1'
timeout: 5
default_node: 8
prompt_system_name: 'YETI'

  • nodes_url - url for getting nodes list on initial startup

  • authentificator_url - url for getting public keys via yeti-cli-authentificator

  • timeout - result waiting timeout

  • default_node - default node, to which we connect on start

  • prompt_system_name - Promt string

You can override default config location via enviroment variable YETI_CMD_CFG_PATH

Shell mode

Also you can configure yeti-cli to work as shell. You openssh-server must support AuthorizedKeysCommand. Add next lines to sshd_config

Reload ssh daemon

# systemctl sshd reload