[Freeipa-users] can ipa-client-install be updated to call username/password from a file?

[Dmitri Pal]

On 10/01/2014 05:44 AM, Yiorgos Stamoulis wrote:
>
> On 01/10/14 08:19, Les Stott wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using freeipa in a rhel6 environment with ipa-3.0.0-37.el6 client.
>>
>> I am working on doing an unattended ipa client installation. I have 
>> it working with the following....
>>
>> /usr/sbin/ipa-client-install -p admin -w <admin_password> -U --no-ntp
>>
>> While this works, while it runs, the <admin_password> value is 
>> visable in the output of a ps --ef command on the host when 
>> installing the ipa client.
>>
>> # ps -ef |grep ipa
>>
>> root     30284 30283 43 03:31 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/python -E 
>> /usr/sbin/ipa-client-install -p admin -w <plain_text_password> -U 
>> --no-ntp
>>
>> This represents a challenge to security, even though its only minor 
>> (as in its only there for a minute or so), but its still there and it 
>> is the admin password.
>>
>> Can  ipa-client-install be updated to include a parameter to retrieve 
>> the admin password from a file? i.e.
>>
>> /usr/bin/python -E /usr/sbin/ipa-client-install -p admin --from-file 
>> /tmp/credentials -U --no-ntp
>>
>> That would then protect the admin password.
>>
>> I am not familiar with python coding.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Les
>>
>>
>>
> Hi Les,
>
> in addition to the answers you have already received, you can create a 
> user with the 'host enrollment' permission only, so even if the 
> credentials are compromised the damage is minimized.
>
> I am using this on 4.0.3 but looking at an older installation the same 
> seems available in 3.0 too.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Yiorgos
>
>
Or you can use OTPs. The OTPs were actually invented for exactly this 
use case. You register host and generate OTP at that time. Then you pass 
it to your enrollment script and it is used once.

-- 
Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
Red Hat, Inc.

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