Passwordless ssh with Puppet

This can be achieved with the ssh_authorized_key resource type. Before doing this in puppet you need to generate a key on the host you want to ssh from. From within the user account you want the ssh access to occur from:-

 ssh-keygen  

Take a copy of the key text from /home/username/.ssh/authorized_keys. This should just be the key part not the ssh type or user and hostname. Also take a copy of the type and the user and hostname part.

Within puppet do the following:-

 ssh_authorized_key {  
  "andy@ahibbert":  
   ensure => present,  
   user  => andy,  
   type  => "ssh-rsa",  
   key  => "AAAAB....."  
 }  

In the above the details from the authorized_keys file are found:-

• andy@ahibbert - user and hostname I'm ssh'ing from
• type - the ssh type I am using
• key - the public ssh key

 This file should be saved with a .pp extension and then applied as follows:-

 puppet apply auto_ssh.pp  

You should know be able to ssh without a password