[enhancement] Create / import SSH keys for other user

Hi Tytus,

To fully understand the use case and highlight potential risks, I have a couple of questions:

I was just wondering to what extend is this? Is it just about importing the ssh key of another and importing, once, or does I extend to be able to edit it?

Also, I’m wondering why can’t users import their own SSH keys once they log into MAAS? It seems that if you were to add multiple users each user would have to ensure the right ssh key is available for them to use rather than expect someone else to import them.

Thanks!

Andres,

My use case is that I have to create around 200 accounts in MaaS and import SSH keys for them from central repository. Of course the import could be done by users themselves, but if I have ~10 MaaS instances this becomes problematic.

From my point of the features that would be nice to have would be:

1) Specify ssh key during account creation, for example:

maas maas users create username=tkurek <email address hidden> password=tkurek is_superuser=1 key="<ssh key>"

maas maas users create username=tkurek <email address hidden> password=tkurek is_superuser=1 key=lp:tkurek

2) Specify user for which the SSH key is being imported:

maas maas sshkeys create key="<ssh key>" user=tkurek