I am a network engineer at a company that just acquired a WISP where all of the infrastructure routers, nearly all of the customer routers, and some of the switches are Mikrotik, and we only have access to about 90% of the infrastructure via username+password. Customer routers are sometimes accessible with a known username+password, sometimes not.
There is a workstation here still running Ubuntu 16.04 that we want to upgrade or replace, but we dare not touch any configuration until everything (software, hardware, etc) is accessible via our preferred login mechanism, instead of SSH keys (we don't control some of the private keys, but they are configured into some important software that controls multiple important functions). This workstation (supposedly) has the .sh files, and some (all?) of the .rsc files used to configure the routers prior to customer deployment. There are (supposedly) some .sh files for updating users on deployed routers, and configurations on those routers, but none of us on the engineering team (there are three of us) are sure how to use them.
Hopefully I painted the picture well enough to explain the predicament so my questions will make more sense.
I successfully created a key, modified the customer router configuration script to add the key to a router, but I can't figure out how to login with it. When I attempt to login with "ssh -l admin -i ~/.ssh/key_rsa", I get the key password prompt, but then I get a user password prompt too. Of course, no passwords for any of the logins are known, and I am not sure that I have figured out how to add a user to the router configuration. Is it possible to login with just the key?
There is a workstation here still running Ubuntu 16.04 that we want to upgrade or replace, but we dare not touch any configuration until everything (software, hardware, etc) is accessible via our preferred login mechanism, instead of SSH keys (we don't control some of the private keys, but they are configured into some important software that controls multiple important functions). This workstation (supposedly) has the .sh files, and some (all?) of the .rsc files used to configure the routers prior to customer deployment. There are (supposedly) some .sh files for updating users on deployed routers, and configurations on those routers, but none of us on the engineering team (there are three of us) are sure how to use them.
Hopefully I painted the picture well enough to explain the predicament so my questions will make more sense.
I successfully created a key, modified the customer router configuration script to add the key to a router, but I can't figure out how to login with it. When I attempt to login with "ssh -l admin -i ~/.ssh/key_rsa", I get the key password prompt, but then I get a user password prompt too. Of course, no passwords for any of the logins are known, and I am not sure that I have figured out how to add a user to the router configuration. Is it possible to login with just the key?
Statistics: Posted by acfreema — Mon Dec 30, 2024 10:41 pm