The balrog key could interfere with the Gandalf key. :)

Mike

> On Jul 12, 2022, at 15:54, Ben Coleman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> In a variables file, I have a series of ssh keys assigned to variables:
> 
> samwise_key: 'ssh-rsa.....
> legolas_key: 'ssh-rsa....
> gandalf_key: 'ssh-rsa.....
> 
> I then have variable defined to be a list of said keys:
> 
> ssh_keys:
>  - "{{ samwise_key }}"
>  - "{{ legolas_key }}"
>  - "{{ gandalf_key }}"
> 
> The idea is to be able to set up such keys (which are used in multiple places 
> in my Ansible scripts) in one place, instead of having to put them in each 
> place they're used.
> 
> One of the places I need to use them is when creating a new linode.  The 
> linode_v4 module has a parameter authorized_keys, which expects a list.
> 
> I've got this set up as:
> 
> - name: Create a new linode
>  linode_v4:
>    label: "{{ label }}.domainname.com
>    type: g6-nanode-1
>    region: us-southeast
>    image: linode/ubuntu20.04
>    root_pass: "yeah, like I'm going to include that in here"
>    authorized_keys: "{{ ssh_keys }}"
>    state: present
>  register: my_linode
> 
> 
> I believe this has worked in the past, but currently (under ansible 2.12.3), 
> when I run this, I'm getting:
> 
> fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Unable to query the 
> Linode API.  Saw: authorized_keys must be either paths to the key files or a 
> list of raw public key of one of these types: ('ssh-dss', 'ssh-rsa', 
> 'ecdsa-sha2-nistp', 'ssh-ed25519')"}
> 
> If I copy the keys to an explicit list under authorized keys, like so:
> 
>    authorized_keys:
>      - 'ssh-rsa......
>      - 'ssh-rsa......
>      - 'ssh-rsa......
> 
> it works, which seems to eliminate the possibility that I'm using a key type 
> that's not recognized (my actual list has more than ssh-rsa keys).
> 
> Which leaves me wondering: how do I pass this ssh_keys variable to the 
> authorized_keys parameter correctly?
> 
> Ben
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