This was originally posted here, but I’m keeping a local copy for self-reliance and preservation: https://forum.syncthing.net/t/my-attempt-at-cli-based-onboarding-of-new-clients-with-auto-accepting-of-folders/24632/1

I know this has been done a million times, but I got it working for 2 test clients and I wanted to share as it has taken me some effort to get this all in 1 place. Maybe this isn’t that applicable, but for me it is. My environment has the following:

1. About 30 linux VM’s and clients
2. One “Primary” syncthing device, which is my introducer. We need that device’s ID, and the ability to ssh into it.
   1. Device ID stylized as AAAAAAA-BBBBBBB-CCCCCCC-DDDDDDD-EEEEEEE-FFFFFFF-GGGGGGG-HHHHHHH, make sure to replace
   2. Introducer hostname stylized by INTRODUCER-HOSTNAME, make sure to replace
   3. If you use an alt port, change it from 22
3. Optionally, a list of shares we want everyone in the group to have; you can also enumerate them for automatic adding, my examples are below:
   1. ~/.dotfiles called .dotfiles
   2. ~/.scripts called .scripts

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