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#!/bin/bash
#
# This script will get an SSH host certificate from our CA and add a weekly
# cron job to rotate the host certificate.
CA_URL="[Your CA's URL]"
# Obtain your CA fingerprint by running this on your CA:
# # step certificate fingerprint $(step path)/certs/root_ca.crt
CA_FINGERPRINT="[Your CA"s Fingerprint]"
STEPCLI_VERSION="0.14.0-rc.4"
curl -LO https://github.com/smallstep/cli/releases/download/v${STEPCLI_VERSION}/step-cli_${STEPCLI_VERSION}_amd64.deb
dpkg -i step-cli_${STEPCLI_VERSION}_amd64.deb
# Configure `step` to connect to & trust our `step-ca`.
# Pull down the CA's root certificate so we can talk to it later with TLS
step ca bootstrap --ca-url $CA_URL \
--fingerprint $CA_FINGERPRINT
# Install the CA cert for validating user certificates (from /etc/step-ca/certs/ssh_user_key.pub` on the CA).
step ssh config --roots > $(step path)/certs/ssh_user_key.pub
# Get an SSH host certificate
HOSTNAME="$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/public-hostname)"
LOCAL_HOSTNAME="$(curl -s http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/local-hostname)"
# This helps us avoid a potential race condition / clock skew issue
# "x509: certificate has expired or is not yet valid: current time 2020-04-01T17:52:51Z is before 2020-04-01T17:52:52Z"
sleep 1
# The TOKEN is a JWT with the instance identity document and signature embedded in it.
TOKEN=$(step ca token $HOSTNAME --ssh --host --provisioner "Amazon Web Services")
# To inspect $TOKEN, run
# $ echo $TOKEN | step crypto jwt inspect --insecure
#
# To inspect the Instance Identity Document embedded in the token, run
# $ echo $TOKEN | step crypto jwt inspect --insecure | jq -r ".payload.amazon.document" | base64 -d
# Ask the CA to exchange our instance token for an SSH host certificate
step ssh certificate $HOSTNAME /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub \
--host --sign --provisioner "Amazon Web Services" \
--principal $HOSTNAME --principal $LOCAL_HOSTNAME \
--token $TOKEN
# Configure and restart `sshd`
tee -a /etc/ssh/sshd_config > /dev/null <<EOF
# SSH CA Configuration
# This is the CA's public key, for authenticatin user certificates:
TrustedUserCAKeys $(step path)/certs/ssh_user_key.pub
# This is our host private key and certificate:
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
HostCertificate /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key-cert.pub
EOF
service ssh restart
# Now add a weekly cron script to rotate our host certificate.
cat <<EOF > /etc/cron.weekly/rotate-ssh-certificate
#!/bin/sh
export STEPPATH=/root/.step
cd /etc/ssh && step ssh renew ssh_host_ecdsa_key-cert.pub ssh_host_ecdsa_key --force 2> /dev/null
exit 0
EOF
chmod 755 /etc/cron.weekly/rotate-ssh-certificate
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