SSH Keys in Cloudmin

Submitted by Exoware on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 11:36

What is the purpose of the current implementation of SSH keys in Cloudmin and why have you not included (or excluded) the use of keys with passphrases? I would personally find dropping public keys from passphrased private keys useful as I could SSH directly into any VMs created. Even if you could include the possibility to add a public key to all VMs without storing the private key on Cloudmin, that would be useful.

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Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by sgrayban on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 16:13

You can not bypass the private key no matter what. It must be stored where cloudmin is installed.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 16:16

Currently, Cloudmin uses SSH keys to login to systems it manages, and so needs to know both the private and public key. In this case, using a passphrase doesn't make much sense, as it would need to store that too in order to login.

However, your suggestion about being able to add a public key for addition to new virtual systems is a good one .. that way, you can use a passphrase-protected private key. I will implement this in the next (3.2) release of Cloudmin.

Submitted by sgrayban on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 16:27

Doesn't it already do that ?

Add to root's authorized keys on new systems? Yes No

I asked for this last year and you added it.

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 16:46

Yes .. but you can't enter just a public key, you are forced to always enter a private key too.

Submitted by Issues on Thu, 09/24/2009 - 02:20

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.