Requesting Automation Users

Description

When performing automated Release Engineering tasks using RelEng Automation <_releng-automation> you will sometimes find that you need to perform an action in the Infrastructure with sudo that does not yet have an automation user associated with it.

Actions

Requesting a new loopabull user

File a ticket with Fedora Infrastructure making sure to satisfy the following requirements:

  • Provide a justification for these permissions being needed (What are you trying to do and why?)

  • Commands needing to be run with sudo

  • Destination server on which the commands need to be run

  • The loopabull_ username requested to be created for this OR which loopabull_ username needs it’s pre-existing permissions enhanced

For reference: Example Infrastructure Ticket

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