SSH Gateway Connection

Introduction

We can establish a connection to the target system using the SSH remote access protocol.

How to connect 1

You can establish the connection with the ssh gateway and then Soffid will ask ~~you the~~your password and the target system parameters to connect:

Password: password of your account to connect to Soffid.
Target server: system to which you want to connect.
Account to use: account to use to connect to the target system.
Account source system

root@soffid:~# ssh -p 2222 dilbert@ssh-gateway
Password: 
Target server: 10.129.120.5
Account to use: patricia
Account source system [leave blank to use a target system local account]: 
 ________________________________________
|                 __                     |
|              __/       |               |
|   __   __  _/__|__o  __|               |
|  |__  /  \  |  |  | /  |               |
|   __| \__/  |  |  | \__/  SSH GATEWAY  |
|           __/                          |
|                                        |
| Hello dilbert                          |
| NOTICE: This session is being recorded |
|________________________________________|

Connecting to 10.129.120.5 as patricia
Last login: Fri Apr  8 08:39:23 2022 from 10.129.120.6
[patricia@forgecentos ~]$

How to connect 2

You can establish the connection with the target system typing all the parameters to connect in one ~~line~~ line AccountName__HostName__TargetAccount. At the end, Soffid will ask the password of your account to connect.

Account name: account to connect to Soffid.
Host name: target system to which you want to connect.
Target account: account to connect to the target system.
Password: password of your account to connect to Soffid.

root@soffid:~# ssh -p 2222 dilbert__10.129.120.5__patricia@ssh-gateway
Password: 
 ________________________________________
|                 __                     |
|              __/       |               |
|   __   __  _/__|__o  __|               |
|  |__  /  \  |  |  | /  |               |
|   __| \__/  |  |  | \__/  SSH GATEWAY  |
|           __/                          |
|                                        |
| Hello dilbert                          |
| NOTICE: This session is being recorded |
|________________________________________|

Connecting to 10.129.120.5 as patricia
Last login: Fri Apr  8 09:57:22 2022 from 10.129.120.6
[patricia@forgecentos ~]$

How to connect 3

You can establish the connection with the target system typing all the parameters to connect in one line AccountName__HostName__TargetAccount and using a ssh key.

Account name: account to connect to Soffid.

Host name: target system to which you want to connect.

Target account: account to connect to the target system.

You can generate a ssh key to connect, ~~our~~or use your existing ssh key. ~~Then you need to include it in Soffid into your user data.~~

Generate a new ssh key: ssh-keygen -t rsa
Read an existing ssh key: cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub

Then you need to include it in Soffid Console in your user data.

Finally you can establish the connection.

pgarcia@soffid:~$ ssh -p 2222 -i .ssh/id_rsa pgarcia__10.129.120.5__patricia@ssh-gateway
 ________________________________________
|                 __                     |
|              __/       |               |
|   __   __  _/__|__o  __|               |
|  |__  /  \  |  |  | /  |               |
|   __| \__/  |  |  | \__/  SSH GATEWAY  |
|           __/                          |
|                                        |
| Hello pgarcia                          |
| NOTICE: This session is being recorded |
|________________________________________|

Connecting to 10.129.120.5 as patricia
Last login: Fri Apr  8 11:57:19 2022 from 10.129.120.6
[patricia@forgecentos ~]$

Soffid needs the ssh_key attribute in the user object metadata, please check the attribute is created properly.