On Nov 21, 2008, at 10:55 AM, slmiller wrote: > I have a vague memory of struggling through this type of issue when > attempting to get my VMware ESX boxes modeled. > > I believe whatever library Zenoss uses for SSH connections is unable > to utilize/understand keys as an authentication mechanism, so you > must use and supply a valid password. > > I hope I'm mistaken in this, if someone knows the correct magic > needed to get ssh keys to be used successfully, please share.
Keys are definitely supported. In fact you can use keys with and without a passphrase. Here's how you set it up. zKeyPath: This is crucial and required for both types of pubkey authenitcation zCommandUsername: Username to login to on the remote system zCommandPassword: Blank for no passphrase on the key, or set it to the passphrase for the key if required What trips a lot of people up is that zKeyPath defaults to ~/.ssh/ id_dsa instead of ~/.ssh/id_rsa. _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
