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[9fans] feeding factotum on boot         


Author: Yaroslav
Date: Sep 16, 2008 06:59

A question: how to feed a private (SSH host) key(s) to eve's factotum
during the boot?
The first what comes up to my mind is to save the key somewhere on
fileserver, then to feed it to factotum from cpurc.
Feel there should be other way...

P.S. Cpu, auth, fs and secstore are all the same machine.

Thanks.
--
Best regards,
Yarek.
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Re: [9fans] feeding factotum on boot         


Author: erik quanstrom
Date: Sep 16, 2008 07:11

> A question: how to feed a private (SSH host) key(s) to eve's factotum
> during the boot?
> The first what comes up to my mind is to save the key somewhere on
> fileserver, then to feed it to factotum from cpurc.
> Feel there should be other way...
>
> P.S. Cpu, auth, fs and secstore are all the same machine.

put them in secstore. you may need to run auth/wrkey
to save the secstore key in the "nvram" file. the key is
saved in plan text, unfortunately. also beware that your
secstore key is limited to 8 characters.

- erik
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Re: [9fans] feeding factotum on boot         


Author: Robert Raschke
Date: Sep 16, 2008 07:17

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Yaroslav gmail.com> wrote:
> A question: how to feed a private (SSH host) key(s) to eve's factotum
> during the boot?
> The first what comes up to my mind is to save the key somewhere on
> fileserver, then to feed it to factotum from cpurc.
> Feel there should be other way...

I've got this in my cpurc:

auth/secstore -n -G factotum |read -m >>/mnt/factotum/ctl

Although I've forgotten how I set up the secstore for the cpu server.
That's the downside with systems that just work.

Robby
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Re: [9fans] feeding factotum on boot         


Author: Yaroslav
Date: Sep 17, 2008 00:31

The solution is natural and easy.

Thanks a lot, gentlemen.
Yarek.
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