My coworker just pointed out that the /xcatpost/mypostscript on the nodes
that are deployed actually have this line:
ENABLESSHBETWEENNODES='NO'
export ENABLESSHBETWEENNODES
That's interesting, given that sshbetweennodes (without 'enable' as the
beginning of the parameter name?) was not defined at all in the site table
and the default is supposedly enabled(?). However, I just set
sshbetweennodes in site to "sshbetweennodes","ALLGROUPS",, and am now
redeploying to see if it makes a difference.
The man page for site says:
sshbetweennodes: Comma separated list of groups to enable passwordless
root
ssh during install, or xdsh -K. Default
is ALLGROUPS.
Set to NOGROUPS,if you do not wish to
enabled any groups.
Service Nodes are not affected by this
attribute
they are always setup with
passwordless root access to nodes and
other SN.
-Josh
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Josh Nielsen <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Here is what I see in /var/log/messages when remoteshell is run:
>
> Mar 7 14:28:41 xcat-serv1 node0087c xcat: remoteshell: setup
> /etc/ssh/sshd_config and ssh_config
> Mar 7 14:28:41 xcat-serv1 node0087c xcat: Install: setup root .ssh
> Mar 7 14:28:42 xcat-serv1 xcat-serv1 xCAT[16025]: xCAT: Allowing
> getcredentials ssh_dsa_hostkey from node0087c
> Mar 7 14:28:42 xcat-serv1 node0087c xCAT: remoteshell: getting
> ssh_host_dsa_key
> Mar 7 14:28:42 xcat-serv1 xcat-serv1 xCAT[16027]: xCAT: Allowing
> getcredentials ssh_rsa_hostkey from node0087c
> Mar 7 14:28:42 xcat-serv1 node0087c xCAT: ssh_rsa_hostkey
> Mar 7 14:28:42 xcat-serv1 node0087c xCAT: start up sshd
>
> I see new timestamps on authorized_keys and copy.sh when it is run, so it
> is actually doing something.
>
> Is there a substantial difference between remoteshell and updatenode -k?
> Why does updatenode -k successfully copy the id_rsa key to the node if I
> type in the password?
>
> As for the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network, actually if I run just the
> kickstart and remove ifcfg-eth from the list of postscripts (in the node
> definition's postscripts= field) to execute automatically it ends up
> looking like this:
> # cat /etc/sysconfig/network
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=3(NXDOMAIN)
>
> But when I manually run updatenode node0087c -P ifcfg-eth it works
> correctly. (Also it changes the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> file's BOOTPROTO parameter from dhcp to static and sets the IPADDR, as it
> should).
> # cat /etc/sysconfig/network
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=node0087c.morgan.haib.org
>
> Only if I keep the ifcfg-eth postscript in the node definition (listed in
> postscripts= if you 'lsdef') to be automatically executed does
> that /etc/sysconfig/network file say 'localhost', which seems to indicate
> an order of execution problem to me (even though I made sure ifcfg-eth was
> listed last). And, to answer your question, an nslookup node0087c before
> and after both return the correct IP from either of the SNs' slave DNS
> servers.
>
> They are possibly two unrelated issues, but I'm close to just upgrading
> xCAT and seeing if I have any better luck if I can't figure out some
> obvious problem soon. For kicks I'll explicitly set sshbetweennodes in the
> site table and rerun the remoteshell postscript.
>
> Regards,
> Josh
>
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Casandra H Qiu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> mmm, I don't have system with xCAT 2.8.3. but I think sshbetweenodes
>> attribute is available for while. if it is not defined in the site table,
>> the default should be set up passwordless between nodes.
>> "nslookup nodename" still works after you update the hostname, right?
>> can u able to find any error message from logs? maybe in the
>> /var/log/message.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Casandra
>> ...................................................................
>> Casandra Hong Qiu
>> Phone: (845) 433-9291, t/l 293-9291
>> Office: B/002, Floor 3, Z13
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>>
>> [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---03/08/2016 03:58:33
>> PM---Thanks for the response Casandra. I should firstly note that]Josh
>> Nielsen ---03/08/2016 03:58:33 PM---Thanks for the response Casandra. I
>> should firstly note that I have xCAT 2.8.3. I know I need to upg
>>
>> From: Josh Nielsen <[email protected]>
>> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
>> Date: 03/08/2016 03:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without
>> prompting for password
>> ------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the response Casandra. I should firstly note that I have xCAT
>> 2.8.3. I know I need to upgrade, but not only has this worked in the past
>> but I also successfully deployed 50+ nodes back in November with the exact
>> same xCAT version I have now and using the same osimage for Centos 6.5,
>> same kickstart, same defined postscripts, etc. So something else has
>> changed, perhaps in our environment?
>>
>> That being said, I did not see sshbetweennodes specified at all in the
>> site table. The following are the only two references to ssh in the table:
>>
>> #tabdump site | grep -i ssh
>> "maxssh","8",,
>> "rsh","/usr/bin/ssh",,
>>
>> Is 'sshbetweennodes' only a feature of versions newer than 2.8.X, or has
>> it been around a while?
>>
>> Lastly, you said that remoteshell copies over id_rsa.pub (regardless - in
>> either scenario), and I have seen that before as well, but actually I am
>> not seeing any id_rsa* keys (public or private) copied to the node at all.
>> And even an updatenode -k is only producing the id_rsa (if I manually type
>> the password) but not the .pub, which is also odd. But authorized_keys is
>> populated with the rsa public key signature. Something else must be going
>> on.
>>
>> P.S. The only other issue I'm still dealing with, which may irrelevant
>> for this issue, is a hostname problem to where if I run the ifcfg-eth
>> postscript it updates the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network from the
>> correct node name to "localhost". My forward and reverse lookup entries in
>> DNS are present, and the hostname is set correctly by the kickstart before
>> ifcfg-eth is run, and remains there if it is not run, which I presume it
>> gets from either the node definition in dhcpd.leases which is created with
>> 'makedhcp' and/or the DNS entries for the host's IP. On the off chance that
>> key copying could be tied to name resolution inconsistencies I thought I
>> might mention that as well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Josh
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Casandra H Qiu <*[email protected]*
>> <[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> can u check the site table if sshbetweennodes is set up? The default
>> for sshbetweennodes is ALLGROUPS, and will enable passwordless between
>> nodes. this attribute will be ignored if zone table is set up, so please
>> check zone table also.
>>
>> if it enables, the remoteshell postscript will copy id_rsa and
>> id_rsa.pub over to compute node, otherwise, it only copies id_rsa.pub.
>>
>> from source code, updatenode -k is always required password.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Casandra
>> ...................................................................
>> Casandra Hong Qiu
>> Phone: *(845) 433-9291* <%28845%29%20433-9291>, t/l 293-9291
>> Office: B/002, Floor 3, Z13
>> *[email protected]* <[email protected]>
>>
>>
>>
>> [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---03/08/2016 12:51:58
>> PM---Yes, I just verified. It is present, but that alone is not s]Josh
>> Nielsen ---03/08/2016 12:51:58 PM---Yes, I just verified. It is present,
>> but that alone is not sufficient for that node to be able to SS
>>
>> From: Josh Nielsen <*[email protected]*
>> <[email protected]>>
>> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <*[email protected]*
>> <[email protected]>>
>> Date: 03/08/2016 12:51 PM
>> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key
>> without prompting for password
>> ------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, I just verified. It is present, but that alone is not sufficient
>> for that node to be able to SSH to other nodes itself. It allows other
>> nodes which have the correct private key to SSH to it, but not the other
>> way around.
>>
>> For example, on one compute node I'm having trouble with /root/.ssh
>> has these three files:
>>
>> -rw-------. 1 root root 408 Mar 7 14:28 authorized_keys
>> -rw-------. 1 root root 411 Mar 7 14:28 copy.sh
>> -rw------- 1 root root 402 Mar 3 16:20 known_hosts
>>
>> And authorized_keys has the correct ssh-rsa public key entry, but I
>> cannot go from this node to any other node in my cluster via passwordless
>> ssh. But as soon as I run updatenode -k, and type in the password that it
>> prompts for to complete the command, the id_rsa key is added as the fourth
>> file to the /root/.ssh directory, and then after that I can ssh to other
>> nodes from it without supplying a password. That is the issue.
>>
>> In the past simply running the remoteshell postscript (or so I
>> assumed) was sufficient for adding the id_rsa file, and it was all
>> automated from a fresh deploy by specifying remoteshell as one of the
>> default postscripts to run. But now it doesn't look like remoteshell is
>> placing the id_rsa file on the node (unless some other script or command
>> is
>> responsible for that), but remoteshell looks like it creates everything
>> else in /root/.ssh/ (and /etc/ssh/).
>>
>> Is remoteshell the correct postscript for that, or was the id_rsa key
>> most likely being pushed to the nodes some other way (like by some code
>> that called updatenode -k upon initial deployment)? Either way, all I can
>> say for sure is that id_rsa used to appear in /root/.ssh on the compute
>> node automatically and now it does not.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Josh
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:19 AM, Xiao Peng Wang <*[email protected]*
>> <[email protected]>> wrote:
>> To enable the login without password, the rsa public key should be
>> copied to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys in the compute node. Could you
>> check
>> whether the key has been added in to
>> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Best Regards
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋)
>> IBM China System Technology Laboratory
>> Tel: 86-10-82453455
>> Email: *[email protected]* <[email protected]>
>> Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West
>> Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193
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>>
>> ----- Original message -----
>> From: Josh Nielsen <*[email protected]*
>> <[email protected]>>
>> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <*[email protected]*
>> <[email protected]>>
>> Cc:
>> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key
>> without prompting for password
>> Date: Tue, Mar 8, 2016 5:26 AM
>>
>> Also if remoteshell is invoked directly as a
>> postscript ('updatenode node0086c -V -P remoteshell') it produces
>> the same
>> result, but does not prompt for a password (like invoking xdsh -K
>> directly
>> doesn't), and copies everything over except id_rsa. So actually the
>> prompting for a password is specific to updatenode -k, not xdsh -K
>> or the
>> remoteshell postscript (which run that). So I'm not sure if that is
>> relevant to the underlying problem or not, but if I do invoke
>> updatenode -k
>> and supply it the password it copies the id_rsa to the node.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Josh Nielsen <
>> *[email protected]* <[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> When we freshly deploy a node from the kickstart and run our
>> postscripts we noticed that for some reason the /root/.ssh/id_rsa
>> file
>> which allows passwordless login from that node to other nodes is
>> missing,
>> though this was not the case just a few months ago. When I try to
>> generate
>> the key manually it prompts for a password, after which it will
>> copy/create
>> that file successfully (see below), but there are a few odd things
>> connected to this.
>>
>> The error is:
>> updatenode node0087c -k
>> Enter the password for the userid: root on the node where the
>> ssh keys will be updated:
>>
>> The first oddity is that even after supplying the password once
>> for a particular node it will prompt for the password every time if
>> I run
>> it again, as well as the related problem that this never used to
>> happen
>> before and the key used to be created without issue or prompting
>> for a
>> password. The 'passwd' xCAT table has the password for root (if
>> that is
>> where it looks for this command).
>>
>> Secondly I have done several manual debugging steps (and poking
>> around source code to see what is happening) and I have run the
>> actual xdsh
>> command that is called, shown from the -V verbose output (which it
>> prints
>> two of, the first apparently to prep the SNs and run the
>> 'remoteshell'
>> postscript on them, and the second to actually do the same to the
>> node
>> specified).
>>
>> xdsh sn1,sn2 --nodestatus -s -v -e
>> /install/postscripts/xcatdsklspost 5 -m [MN_IP]
>> 'remoteshell,servicenode'
>> --tftp /tftpboot --installdir /install --nfsv4 no -c -V
>>
>> xdsh node0086c --nodestatus -s -v -e
>> /install/postscripts/xcatdsklspost 5 -m [SN1_IP] 'remoteshell'
>> --tftp
>> /tftpboot --installdir /install --nfsv4 no -c -V
>>
>> This did not reveal anything useful, except that when invoked
>> directly like this no password is prompted for and it runs, but
>> still
>> leaves out the id_rsa file. I followed also the suggestion by Wang
>> Xaiopeng
>> in this thread (*http://tinyurl.com/jz2jzmb*
>> <http://tinyurl.com/jz2jzmb>*)* to test the getcredentials call
>> with:
>>
>> 1. Enable mini server
>> /xcatpost/allowcred.awk &
>>
>> 2.Try to get rsa hostkey
>> USEOPENSSLFORXCAT=yes XCATSERVER=<MNIP>:3001
>> /xcatpost/getcredentials.awk ssh_rsa_hostkey
>>
>> This returned ssh_rsa_hostkey sucessfully. When remoteshell is
>> run (whether with updatenode -k or xdsh -K) it actually does copy
>> over the
>> key files into /etc/ssh/ and it copies known_hosts, copy.sh, and
>> authorized_keys into /root/.ssh on the compute node but omits
>> id_rsa. What
>> could be going wrong here?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Josh Nielsen
>>
>>
>>
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