i think he meant unauthorized access to the tower machine. Either way, thats a bigger issue.
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > Not really. > > Any config tool does need to actually configure the box, however Tower has > role based access control that you can use to restrict *WHO* can configure > the box. > > Further, you can also control access to your source control so only > certain people should have access to your playbooks. > > You can allow some users you don't trust to deploy into test/stage > environments, and only allow ops team members you trust to deploy into prod. > > And that exists with every single configuration tool on the planet -- > needing to be able to configure the system -- and is not a SSH key specific > kind of thing. > > > > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 1:47 AM, Kevin Burton <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The SSH issue is still an issue if I"m letting this daemon run as root on >> tower, because anyone can just inject code if they can break into this >> box... >> >> On Monday, September 22, 2014 5:31:09 PM UTC-7, Michael DeHaan wrote: >>> >>> So a very good option for key management would be ansible tower - >>> http://ansible.com/tower >>> >>> Let Tower hold on to your key, and nobody will see it. It will use >>> ssh-agent behind the scenes (your key may be locked with a password or not) >>> and only allow that key to be used for running Ansible playbooks. >>> >>> (The key is saved encrypted in the database) >>> >>> I'd also consider setting things up so something like an "ansible" user >>> can sudo. It isn't strictly required, but might help a little bit with >>> tracking who does what. >>> >>> (Tower also keeps good logs of this) >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Kevin Burton <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Right now I just manually SSH into a box in our cluster and run ansible. >>>> >>>> But I want to automate this... Ideally I could just bump the version >>>> number in my code when I want it released... and 2 minutes later it would >>>> be staged, tested, and deployed. >>>> >>>> But the issue is SSH auth.. many of my daemons need root. I don't >>>> necessarily want to have keys just sitting there giving anyone full access >>>> to my cluster. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "Ansible Project" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ >>>> msgid/ansible-project/57b954e7-48a8-491a-8e64- >>>> 7d7168c1b534%40googlegroups.com >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/57b954e7-48a8-491a-8e64-7d7168c1b534%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/0b684ce8-dea1-4edc-b698-1cc07d0b8afe%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/0b684ce8-dea1-4edc-b698-1cc07d0b8afe%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgySEJWPPdNKU7%2BXp%2Be4MR_CBEJCAA9Umbb%2Bvb72k_Yisw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgySEJWPPdNKU7%2BXp%2Be4MR_CBEJCAA9Umbb%2Bvb72k_Yisw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAKsMCER2soB1Hp%3D5JG6v3cRDSheJmfoQGqzHhv_kThnOUwX%2BVA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
