Re: shared ssh config management

Thanks guys.
Lisa, yeah I was thinking it would probably end up being a config mgmt problem. As long as I didn't overlook a simpler (smaller/faster) solution, I guess I have a new project to add to the list of things to do!
Hans, etckeeper is already deployed to all machines. :) Do I even want to ask how you've been abusing it of late though?

- Jill

On 2012-06-11 22:03, Ben Browning wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:28 PM, jill <lists@bespokess.com> wrote:
>
> > In lieu of being able to do ssh includes, a few people with the same
> > idea seem to be doing things with ssh proxies that contain the more
> > advanced configs, or running scripts in their bash profile that cat a
> > bunch of disparate files together into one .ssh/config. We could make
> > the company-wide config a part of the global ssh conf for every system
> > we use it on, until we get to stuff like my jumphost at home that I
> > share with my family and need that data to be account/profile specific.
>
> Well, you could conceivably apply options (I assume these are things
> like keys, port forwards, etc) to the command line and create a
> globally sourceable bashrc with aliases. EG:
>
> cat > foowidget-ssh_config
> alias ssh-foowidget='ssh -i ~/.ssh/foowidget.id_dsa'
> ^d
>
> Then simply call it in a bashrc for each user. It ain't pretty by any
> means, but it's moderately functional, and with proper group perms you
> could conceivably walk through all of them on login and source them
> all.
>
> Alternately, 'cat /etc/global_ssh/config_foo_* ~/.ssh/config >
> ~/.ssh/config.global; alias ssh="ssh -F ~/.ssh/config.global"' in
> everyones bashrc would work too.
>
> ~Ben
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