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On Thursday, 14 July 2022 10:04:21 CEST Mickaël Bucas wrote: |
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> Le jeu. 14 juil. 2022 à 08:35, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> a écrit : |
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> > Hi All, |
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> > |
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> > I am looking for a way to login to a host and automatically change to root |
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> > using a password provided by an external program. |
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> > The root passwords are stored in a vault and I can get passwords out using |
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> > a script after authenticating. |
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> > Currently, I need to do a lot of the steps manually: |
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> > ssh <user>@<host> |
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> > su - |
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> > (copy/paste password from vault) |
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> Why not use directly ssh root@<host> ? |
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> With an SSH key protected by a passphrase that would be a single step |
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> to connect. |
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> You would have a passphrase to manage but you already are using a tool for |
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> that. If you accept the risks, you could also use an SSH key without a |
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> passphrase. |
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> sshd on the host must be configured with |
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> PermitRootLogin=prohibit-password at minimum, which is the default |
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> value. |
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For security reasons, I do not want direct login to root under any |
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circumstances. This is disabled on all systems and will stay this way. |
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Currently, to login as root, you need to know: |
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- admin user account name |
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- admin user account password |
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- root user account password |
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I do not want to reduce this to a single ssh-key-passphrase. |
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Joost |
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