CentOS 7 is centrally supported at SLAC for the following platforms:

• VMware virtual machine
• OpenStack virtual machine
• Bare metal server
• Desktop workstation - under development.  If you wish to help testing, email unix-admin@slac.stanford.edu

Although RHEL 7 is also available if required by your application for support, CentOS 7 is preferred and recommended instead.

Step-by-step guide

These are the steps to install and configure CentOS 7 at SLAC for a headless bare metal server, or virtual machine in VMware or OpenStack:

• Install CentOS 7 using either the Minimal or the DVD ISO available here:
  http://yum.slac.stanford.edu/iso/centos/7/
  
  
• Install Chef by running this command as root:
  curl http://yum.slac.stanford.edu/go-chef
  
  
• Modify this file:
  /etc/security/access.netgroup.conf
  
  Add a line that looks like this (replace 'ksa' with your username):
  + : ksa : ALL
  
  

•  Create a sudoers entry for yourself in this directory.  Replace 'ksa' with your username:
  cat > /etc/sudoers.d/user-ksa << EOF
  ksa   ALL=ALL
  EOF

   

   

   

   

  
  
  

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