ca-client 0.1.0

# SSH CA Client

Client for interacting with [SSH CA Server](https://github.com/commercehub-oss/ssh-ca-server).


## Installation instructions

1. Install ca-client
```
pip install ca-client
```

## Client Usage

ca-client is used to interact with the [SSH CA server]((https://github.com/commercehub-oss/ssh-ca-server)). The client uses HTTP auth to verify identity and provides facilities for listing roles, signing public keys and getting CA certificates.

After completing a signing request ca-client will load the signed certificate and private key into memory with ssh-agent. ssh-agent will sling certs at a remote host until a successful challenge response occurs granting access to the remote host. By default sshd will reject the client after 5 failed attempts. ca-client will not load a certificate with ssh-agent if it will exceed 5 active certificates. The private key and signed certificate must be loaded with ssh-agent and both count towards the limit of 5.

Certificates loaded with ssh-agent do not persist a reboot. Following a reboot you can reload using ssh-add or initiate a new signing request with ca-client.


The first time ca-client is executed you must provide the FQDN of the CA server and the default certificate authority to use when issueing a signing request.

```
$ ca-client

Failed to load configuration from /Users/username/.ca-client/config.json
Enter FQDN of CA Server: ca-server.mydomain.com
Enter name of default CA: nonproduction
Loading configuration from /Users/username/.ca-client/config.json
```

Client configuration example:
```
$ cat ~/.ca-client/config.json

{
"DEFAULT_CA": "nonproduction",
"BASE_URL": "https://ca-server.mydomain.com"
}
```

ca-client command line usage:
```
usage: ca-client [-h] [-s CA | -r | -c | -k CA]

Tool to sign your public SSH key

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-s CA, --sign CA certificate signing request
-u USER, --user USER optional username for signing request
-r, --list-roles list my authorized roles
-c, --list-cas list available CAs
-k CA, --get-key CA list public key for CA
```

List your authorized roles:
```
$ ca-client -r

Role: ssh-admin-group
Description: Super Admin Role
Allowed Principals: admin
Allowed CAs: production,nonproduction
```

List available certificate authorities:
```
$ ca-client -c

CA name: nonproduction
Max duration: 30d

CA name: production
Max duration: 24h
```

Initiate signing request for the nonproduction certificate authority:
```
$ ca-client -s nonproduction
Please enter password for username:

/Users/username/.ssh/nonproduction_rsa-cert.pub updated

Identity added: /Users/username/.ssh/nonproduction_rsa (/Users/username/.ssh/nonproduction_rsa)
Certificate added: /Users/username/.ssh/nonproduction_rsa-cert.pub (username)
Identity loaded for current session but ssh-agent will not persist identities on reboot

If using bash you can add the following command to your .bash_profile
ssh-add /Users/username/.ssh/nonproduction_rsa
```

The ca-client will create a unique keypair for each of the requested certificate authorities within the users .ssh folder.

Example users .ssh folder after requesting certs from production and nonproduction certificate authority.
```
$ ls ~/.ssh

nonproduction_rsa nonproduction_rsa-cert.pub nonproduction_rsa.pub
production_rsa production_rsa-cert.pub production_rsa.pub
```

The below examples shows the result of a successfully signed SSH certificate:

```
$ ssh-keygen -L -f ~/.ssh/nonproduction_rsa-cert.pub

~/.ssh/nonproduction_rsa-cert.pub:
Type: ssh-rsa-cert-v01@openssh.com user certificate
Public key: RSA-CERT 3c:3d:47:...
Signing CA: RSA 2b:2a:23:...
Key ID: "username"
Serial: 12515602213705584981
Valid: from 2017-02-06T17:03:00 to 2017-03-08T17:04:44
Principals:
username
admin
Critical Options: (none)
Extensions:
permit-X11-forwarding
permit-agent-forwarding
permit-port-forwarding
permit-pty
permit-user-rc
```