Slave Hosts in a Pool Take on Same Password as Master?
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After adding a XCP host (host2) to be a slave of another XCP host (host1) in XO (up to date as of 25 Apr), Host2 takes on the password of the Host1 Master when connecting via SSH? Why is this? I don't recall reading about this in the XO documentation. IMO, seems to be a security issue here. Thoughts?
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This is not an XO behavior, but rather a Xapi behavior, and therefore a XCP-ng behavior.
When you join a host to a pool, the administrator password for the joining host is automatically changed to match the administrator password of the pool master.From a security perspective, this isn't a risk, because when you run a command on any of the hosts in a pool, the master responds. So, as long as you're connected to a pool member, you have access to the entire pool via xe commands.
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@gduperrey
Ok, thank you. Appreciate the explanation. -
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