Bug#592550: Provide support for SSH-Key authentication (Supports Eucalyptus and Amazon EC2)
- To: Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@boeing.com>
- Cc: 592550@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Bug#592550: Provide support for SSH-Key authentication (Supports Eucalyptus and Amazon EC2)
- From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:00:32 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 2fllj8dk7sv.fsf@login1.uio.no>
- Reply-to: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>, 592550@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <20100810204951.16254.81815.reportbug__48837.5127352358$1281473483$gmane$org@philyra.exmeritus.com> (Kyle Moffett's message of "Tue\, 10 Aug 2010 16\:49\:51 -0400")
- References: <20100810204951.16254.81815.reportbug__48837.5127352358$1281473483$gmane$org@philyra.exmeritus.com>
[Kyle Moffett]
> Package: network-console
> Severity: wishlist
>
> When performing partially-automated virtual-server installations (using
> services such as Eucalyptus or Amazon EC2, for example), it's not really
> practical or secure to use password-based authentication for the
> installer.
>
> Furthermore, such virtual server environments provide an automatic
> method of provisioning public SSH keys during the installation process
> via an HTTP URL.
I believe you can get similar behaviour by preseeding t the
early_command to insert the ssh key into /root/.authorized_keys. I
agree that this is less elegant than a native solution.
Happy hacking,
--
Petter Reinholdtsen
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