Default user stanley to be changed

[ManuGeodis]

I'm planning to integrate stackstorm in my monitoring infrastructure. I have my monitoring infrastructre in Azure VM'S. Satckstorm instance is also running on azure vm. Is it possible to change the default user stanley to any custom name?

[arm4b]

@ManuGeodis Yes, the system user is configurable in st2.conf, see

st2/conf/st2.conf.sample

Lines 335 to 339 in eeddc49

	[system_user]
	# SSH private key for the system user.
	ssh_key_file = /home/stanley/.ssh/stanley_rsa
	# Default system user.
	user = stanley

[arm4b]

Here are the default instructions that used to configure default user stanley and its ssh key:
https://github.com/StackStorm/st2-packages/blob/f2cf7748110c70faa932de0f93aa4e5c755a9933/scripts/st2bootstrap-deb.sh#L256-L297

hope that helps.

[ManuGeodis]

@armab The default user stanley is working for me in my test environment. I need to know whether is it possible to change the username from stanley to a custom name that I can use in my production.

Also need to know that Is it possible to run an action from stackstorm using rest api of Bigfix.

[arm4b]

Is the user captain configured with the instructions above?
Does it use the same SSH key that worked for stanley?
Is it the same environment where these 2 users are configured?

[ManuGeodis]

@armab The user captain is configured with the same instructions and it uses a new key that is generated for captain.

Actually there is a small change in my requirement. Since I'm having different servers with different applications in my environment, So using a user either stanley or custom user, We have to give different permissions for this user in different server for running actions. We are using Big Fix for linux configuration management. So i it possible to run stackstorm action using a rest api call to the big fix other than using user?

[arm4b]

I can recommend setting up default user and get it working first, then switching to the custom user in the same environment changing one thing at a time while trying to find which step/configuration diff failed.
Custom user functionality is supported. The issue you're having is likely with some configuration.