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Info

https://github.com/jlangenegger/ssh_certificate/

2 - Prepare

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CA

Warning

This needs to be done on a offline machine!

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Code Block
languagebash
YUBIKEYNUM=0
PATH_TO_CERTIFICATE="/etc/ssh-ca"

mkdir -p $PATH_TO_CERTIFICATE

# generate key directly on yubikey and self-sign the certificate
yubico-piv-tool -k 123456 -s 9c -a generate -o yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM.pem
yubico-piv-tool -k 123456 -a verify-pin -a selfsign-certificate --valid-days 10000 -s 9c -S "/CN=yubikey`$YUBIKEYNUM`/" -i yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM.pem -o yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM-cert.pem
# import self-signed certificate
yubico-piv-tool -k 123456 -a import-certificate -s 9c -i yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM-cert.pem

# convert public key to RSA
ssh-keygen -f yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM.pem -i -mPKCS8 > yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM.pub

# move public key to correct place and remove leftovers
mv yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM.pub $PATH_TO_CERTIFICATE 
rm yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM-cert.pem yubikey$YUBIKEYNUM.pem

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4 - Sign client's public keys

To sign client's public keys there is the script 'generate_client_certificate.sh' to simplify the procedure.
The scripts does have the following options:

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The output of 'generate_client_certificate.sh' is a .tar archive that contains the certificate, the public key that is used to authenticate servers as well as an instruction to install the certificate on the client's machine. It is stored in the home directory '$HOME/signed_keys'.

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5 - Troubleshooting

Export public key

Code Block
languagebash
PATH_TO_YKCS11="/usr/local/lib/libykcs11.so"
ssh-keygen -D PATH_TO_YKCS11 -e

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