SSH Public Key Authentication
Note. Only some Virtualization Providers in vPlus like Proxmox VE allow you authentication using SSH key.
General
Instead of using password authentication - anywhere where you're able to provide SSH credentials (hypervisors, VMs applications, etc.) you also have the public key alternative.**.
By default, vPlus uses the /opt/vprotect/.ssh/id_rsa
path, however, you also can override it with your own path*.
*(this needs to be owned by vprotect
user and make sure it has the 0400
permission set.
**You don't have to pass a passphrase, you can leave this parameter blank.
Note. vPlus does not support keys other than "RSA".
Example
1. Generate a key or use yours and store it as /opt/vprotect/.ssh/id_rsa
(make sure that the vprotect
user and group own the file)
example key generation:
2. use ssh-copy-id
to upload your public key (as vprotect
user) to the KVM host:
3. Check if you're able to log in to the hypervisor using the local vprotect
user without being asked for the password:
4. Now you should be able to index VMs regardless of the password set for the hypervisor (the key should be used instead)
5. Now, you can provide path to your new SSH key (default: /opt/vprotect/.ssh/id_rsa) when creating a new Virtualization Provider in vPlus dashboard
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