+# make sure we don't require tty for sudo operations
+cat <<EOF >/etc/sudoers.d/89-jenkins-user-defaults
+Defaults:jenkins !requiretty
+jenkins ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL
+EOF
+
+# for whatever reason netopeer & CPqD aren't installed (they weren't in
+# one of the yum repos we were hooked up to when the base image was
+# built, they are now. Make sure they're install
+yum install -q -y netopeer-server-sl CPqD-ofsoftswitch13
+
+# installing sshuttle to create a VPN-ish proxy to VMs that have
+# docker containers on them in order to make them externally accessible
+yum install -q -y sshuttle
+
+# netaddr and ipaddress libraries can be useful on this system as
+# some tests are starting to push pyhon scripts/tools to this VM
+# during CI tests
+yum install -q -y python-{ipaddr,iptools,netaddr}
+
+#For executing the CSIT test cases for VTN Coordinator
+yum install -q -y uuid libxslt libcurl unixODBC json-c
+chown jenkins /usr/local/vtn
+
+
+# the vagrant configuration for netopeer doesn't configure SSH correctly
+# as it uses and here document via echo and not cat fix that
+cat << EOSSH >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
+
+# Added for netconf / netopeer testing
+Port 22
+Port 830
+Subsystem netconf /usr/bin/netopeer-server-sl
+EOSSH
+
+# Configuring sshd to accept root login with password
+sed -ie 's/PasswordAuthentication no/PasswordAuthentication yes/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
+sed -ie 's/PermitRootLogin no/PermitRootLogin yes/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
+chattr +i /etc/ssh/sshd_config
+
+# sshd has to get a restart because of the above
+service sshd restart
+
+# found out while doing testing to fix netopeer that the selinux perms
+# aren't set correctly (thanks Rackspace for having an EL6 image that
+# didn't have selinux on at first!) fix it so that the password can be
+# set
+/sbin/restorecon -R /etc
+