freesshd-cookbook

Chef cookbook which installs and configures freesshd on windows.

Features

• install freesshd
• configure ssh server
• configure user access, password and key-based

Supported Platforms

Tested on Windows 7 x64, but should work on any version.

Attributes

Attribute names follow official names from FreeSSHDService.ini. Defaults are the same as installer would create.

SSH Server

• node[:freesshd][:ssh][:SSHListenAddress] - Default: "0.0.0.0"
• node[:freesshd][:ssh][:SSHListenPort] - Default: 22
• node[:freesshd][:ssh][:SSHMaxConnections] - Default: 0
• node[:freesshd][:ssh][:SSHTimeout] - Default: 0
• node[:freesshd][:ssh][:SSHBanner] - Default: ""
• node[:freesshd][:ssh][:SSHCMD] - Default: "C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe"
• node[:freesshd][:ssh][:SSHRun] - Default: 1
• node[:freesshd][:ssh][:SSHNewConsole] - Default: 1
• node[:freesshd][:ssh][:SSHCiphers] - Default: 0
• node[:freesshd][:ssh][:SSHMACs] - Default: 65535
• node[:freesshd][:ssh][:SSHPasswordAuth] - Default: 0
• node[:freesshd][:ssh][:SSHPublickeyAuth] - Default: 0
• node[:freesshd][:ssh][:SSHPublickeyPath] - Default: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\freeSSHd'
• node[:freesshd][:ssh][:RSAKeyPath] - Default: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\freeSSHd\RSAKey.cfg'
• node[:freesshd][:ssh][:DSAKeyPath] - Default: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\freeSSHd\DSAKey.cfg'

Usage

freesshd::default

Include freesshd in your node's run_list:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[freesshd::default]"
  ]
}

This will install freesshd and windows service with default configuration. Use chef attributes to customize.

User access

All attributes under node[:freesshd][[:users] control access to the server.

Examples:

• add user admin with password-only authentication, enabled access to shell, with password 'Admin':

node[:freesshd][:users][:admin] = {
  auth: 1,
  password: '4E7AFEBCFBAE000B22C7C85E5560F89A2A0280B4EC',# Admin
  domain: nil,
  shell: 1,
  sftp: 0,
  tunnel: 0
}

TODO list

More human-friendly attribute types (e.g. true instead of 1).

Entire sshd is controlled by one single .ini file. Currently only ssh server and users section is controlled by this cookbook. Additionally we could have configurable:

• telnet
• sftp
• logging

License and Authors

License:: MIT Author:: Tomasz Setkowski (tom@ai-traders.com)