Description

Creates authorized_keys in user ~/.ssh directory from a data bag.

Attributes

Expects node[:ssh_keys] to be an hash containing the user name as key and data bag user name as value.

See attributes/default.rb for additional attributes default values.

Usage

Node configuration example to create authorized_keys for user root from data bag user user1:

{
  "ssh_keys": {
    "root": "user1"
  },
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[ssh-keys]"
  ]
}

Node configuration example to create authorized_keys for user root from data bag user user1 and user2:

{
  "ssh_keys": {
    "root": ["user1", "user2"]
  },
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[ssh-keys]"
  ]
}

Use knife to create a data bag for users:

knife data bag create users

User data bag example (compatible with Chef users cookbook):

knife data bag users user1
{
  "id": "user1",
  "ssh_keys": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nz...yhCw== user1"
}

knife data bag users user2
{
  "id": "user2",
  "ssh_keys": "ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nz...5D8F== user2"
}