A minimal REST API on HTTP + Unix sockets for creating users.
POST http+unix:[/path/to/restuser.sock]/username
to create a new user. Reply is a JSON dict of the pwd struct:
{
"dir": "/home/foo",
"gid": 1000,
"name": "foo",
"shell": "/bin/bash",
"uid": 1000
}Run with:
sudo mkdir /var/run/restuser
sudo python restuser.py --socket=restuser.sock
Mount the socket in a docker container with:
docker run -v restuser.sock:/var/run/restuser.sock -t yourimage
This will mount the host's restuser.sock as /var/run/restuser.sock on the container,
giving the container permission to create users on the host machine.
You can test both the server and a client in docker containers.
Build the images:
docker build -t restuser .
docker build -t restuser-test test
Run the server:
docker run --name users -d -t restuser
Run the test client:
docker run --volumes-from=users -it restuser-test
Verify the new users:
docker exec -it users tail -n 5 /etc/passwd
Finally, violently destroy the server:
docker rm -f users