March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
925 pages
18h 11m
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A sensible approach to access control for servers is to use named user accounts with passphrase-protected SSH keys, rather than having users share an account with a widely known password. Puppet makes this easy to manage thanks to the built-in ssh_authorized_key type.
To combine this with virtual users, as described in the previous section, you can create a define, which includes both the user and ssh_authorized_key resources. This will also come in handy when adding customization files and other resources to each user.
Follow these steps to extend your virtual users' class to include SSH access:
ssh_user to contain our ssh_user definition. Create the modules/ssh_user/manifests/init.pp ...Read now
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