Default SSH key for created CTs

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yatesco

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Hi, is there a way I can automatically add an SSH public key to any created CTs? At the moment I am manually uploading my key when I create the CT but this doesn't work when I use the excellent community scripts?
 
Hi,

yes, either via the web interface in the "Create CT" wizard or via the --ssh-public-keys option of pct(1).

yatesco said:
but this doesn't work when I use the excellent community scripts?
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Please ask their authors at their repository/forum/etc.
 
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thanks @cheiss. Do you envisage Proxmox supporting a "default SSH key to be added to CTs" which is then honoured by `pct`? If not, can I ask please, please, pretty, pretty, please, please :-)
 
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I appreciate you don't maintain the community scripts - I'm asking about functionality within core Proxmox ;-).
 
leesteken said:
It is supported via the Proxmox web GUI and via the Proxmox command line tools and the Proxmox API. Can you explain where else you want Proxmox to support this?
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at the moment the SSH key needs to be specified whenever it is referenced, which means every _use_ of `pct` to create a CT, for example, requires changing.

If Proxmox would allow me, at any point, to upload and persist a "default" SSH key, then whenever `pct` is used to create a CT it can check if this "default" key exists, and if so, use that.

This means, as a user, I upload the SSH key once, and then _however_ I create CTs, as long as something uses `pct`, the SSH key gets added.

Specifically:
- Proxmox GUI has a new option: "upload SSH key to be added automatically to new CTs"
- `pct` is updated to check for the presence of this key, and if it exists, automatically adds it to the CT

Does that make sense?
 
yatesco said:
If Proxmox would allow me, at any point, to upload and persist a "default" SSH key, then whenever `pct` is used to create a CT it can check if this "default" key exists, and if so, use that.
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Put the default ssh-key in a fixed location and write a simple script to create your containers with it? But maybe that brings us back to: somebody please write a (community) script for you that does that.
 
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yes, exactly, it requires updating every script :-). I'm surprised nobody has asked for this before as it seems such a simple and obvious use-case?
 
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