tempest/releasenotes/notes/add-ssh-allow-agent-2dee6448fd250e50.yaml
Julia Kreger a6614d38dd Allow SSH connection callers to not permit agent usage
While debugging the ``rescue`` test functionality with ironic's
tempest plugin, we discovered that if the environment suggests the
agent is available, then we may enter a situation where the test
can fail because paramiko prefers ssh over password authentication.

This is important, because for rescue functionality in particular,
it is password authentication based without the use of SSH keys,
as a temporary password is generated by the services and provided
to the user requesting to rescue the instance/node.

Instead of trying to make an assumption that password being present
means we should just disable the agent, explicitly allow the caller
to specify it.

Change-Id: Iefb6cb5cb80eb2b9a4307912c4d6d07c684ed70a
2023-02-02 08:30:32 -08:00

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---
features:
- |
Adds a ``ssh_allow_agent`` parameter to the ``RemoteClient`` class
wrapper and the direct ssh ``Client`` class to allow a caller to
explicitly request that the SSH Agent is not consulted for
authentication. This is useful if your attempting explicit password
based authentication as ``paramiko``, the underlying library used for
SSH, defaults to utilizing an ssh-agent process before attempting
password authentication.