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Bug 1240410

Summary: [RFE] add sshkey kickstart option to rhel 7
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Ross Smith <rjsm>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Brian Lane <bcl>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 7.1CC: mbanas, mkovarik, salmy
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: FutureFeature
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Hardware: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: anaconda-21.48.22.57-1 Doc Type: Enhancement
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: 1274104 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-11-03 23:08:08 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 1311755    
Bug Blocks: 1274104    

Description Ross Smith 2015-07-06 20:24:06 UTC
Description of problem:
When using the inst.sshd option and a kickstart installation, using authorized keys would be appreciated.  the sshpw functionality is already there.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhel 7.1 release media


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. start installation with inst.sshd boot command and sshkey kickstart option
2.
3.

Actual results:
Unknown command: sshkey

Expected results:
Able to authenticate using pubkey to the installing system

Additional info:

Comment 2 Brian Lane 2015-10-21 23:55:44 UTC
sshkey is for setting the sshkeys of users on the installed system, not during installation.

We could probably add a --sshkey argument to the sshpw command, but this will have to happen in upstream Fedora Anaconda first.

Comment 3 Brian Lane 2015-11-10 17:31:33 UTC
Now in upstream Anaconda and pykickstart. bug 1274104

Comment 5 Michal Kovarik 2016-07-27 08:54:31 UTC
Verified on anaconda-21.48.22.80-1. I was able to login to running installation ussing ssh key when "sshpw --username=root --sshkey '$PUBLIC_KEY'" was in kickstart.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-03 23:08:08 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2016-2158.html