The Chef ssh_known_hosts
cookbook exposes an LWRP and default recipe for adding hosts and keys to the /etc/ssh_known_hosts
file.
- The default recipe builds
/etc/ssh/known_hosts
based on search indexes and ohai data. - The LWRP provides a way to add custom entries in your own recipes.
You can also optionally put other host keys in a data bag called "ssh_known_hosts". See below for details.
- An operating system that supports
/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
- (Chef Search is required for the default recipe, but not the LWRP)
Use the LWRP ssh_known_hosts_entry
to append an entry for the
specified host in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
. For example:
ssh_known_hosts_entry 'github.com'
This will append an entry in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
like this:
# github.com SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.5p1 Debian-6+squeeze1+github8
github.com ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAq2A7hRGmdnm9tUDbO9IDSwBK6TbQa+PXYPCPy6rbTrTtw7PHkccKrpp0yVhp5HdEIcKr6pLlVDBfOLX9QUsyCOV0wzfjIJNlGEYsdlLJizHhbn2mUjvSAHQqZETYP81eFzLQNnPHt4EVVUh7VfDESU84KezmD5QlWpXLmvU31/yMf+Se8xhHTvKSCZIFImWwoG6mbUoWf9nzpIoaSjB+weqqUUmpaaasXVal72J+UX2B+2RPW3RcT0eOzQgqlJL3RKrTJvdsjE3JEAvGq3lGHSZXy28G3skua2SmVi/w4yCE6gbODqnTWlg7+wC604ydGXA8VJiS5ap43JXiUFFAaQ==
You can optionally specify your own key, if you don't want to use ssh-keyscan
:
ssh_known_hosts_entry 'github.com' do
key 'node.example.com ssh-rsa ...'
end
Attribute | Description | Example | Default |
---|---|---|---|
host | the host to add | github.com | |
key | (optional) provide your own key | ssh-rsa ... | ssh-keyscan -H #{host} |
Searches the Chef Server for all hosts that have SSH host keys and generates an /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts
.
There are two ways to add custom host keys. You can either use the provided LWRP (see above), or by creating a data bag called "ssh_known_hosts
" and adding an item for each host:
{
"id": "github",
"fqdn": "github.com",
"rsa": "github-rsa-host-key"
}
There are additional optional values you may use in the data bag:
Attribute | Description | Example | Default |
---|---|---|---|
id | a unique id for this data bag entry | github | |
fqdn | the fqdn of the host | github.com | |
rsa | the rsa key for this server | ssh-rsa AAAAB3... | |
ipaddress | the ipaddress of the node (if fqdn is missing) | 1.1.1.1 | |
hostname | local hostname of the server (if not a fqdn) | myserver.local | |
dsa | the dsa key for this server | ssh-dsa ABAAC3... |
- Author:: Scott M. Likens (scott@likens.us)
- Author:: Seth Vargo (sethvargo@gmail.com)
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