On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 01:35:23AM -0500, Chet Luther wrote:
>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.
Wait a minute. You're saying that zCommandPassword is not the actually
the zencommand user's password, but the passphrase for the zenoss user's
private ssh keys?
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