Re: [Fab-user] Key-based authentication

[Christian Vest Hansen]

Can you post a working fabfile configured to use SSH keys?

I'de like to document this in the tutorial.

On 6/12/08, Christian Vest Hansen <address@hidden> wrote:
> Alright, I'm glad you figured it out - this is good stuff to know as
>  there's a high likelyhood that others will run into the same problems.
>
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>  On 6/12/08, Sergey Kirillov <address@hidden> wrote:
>  > Hi Christian,
>  >
>  >  Yes, I saw that.
>  >
>  >  It works now. I had to set 'fab_password': None in order to bypass 'if
>  > 'fab_password' not in ENV:' check in _connect(). But now sudo() does not
>  > work because it tries to do
>  > 'stdin.write(env['fab_password'])' and fails there with
>  > exception.
>  >
>  >  To solve this I've updated /etc/sudoers and have listed all commands that
>  > need to be executed as passwordless.  So  instead of sudo() I'm using
>  > run('sudo dosomething'), and it works like a charm.
>  >
>  >  Deployment user does not have password at all, and I can give people 
> access
>  > to deployment just by adding their SSH public keys into
>  > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of deployment user.
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  Christian Vest Hansen wrote:
>  >
>  > > I haven't tried key-based authentication myself, but Fabric will relay
>  > > any fab_pkey and fab_key_filename to the SSHClient.connect method in
>  > > paramiko:
>  > >
>  > >
>  > http://www.lag.net/paramiko/docs/paramiko.SSHClient-class.html#connect
>  > >
>  > > Hope that helps.
>  > >
>  > >
>  >
>  >
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> --
>  Venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
>  Christian Vest Hansen.
>


-- 
Venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
Christian Vest Hansen.