nebula-cert: support reading CA passphrase from env (#1421)

* nebula-cert: support reading CA passphrase from env

This patch extends the `nebula-cert` command to support reading
the CA passphrase from the environment variable `CA_PASSPHRASE`.

Currently `nebula-cert` depends in an interactive session to obtain
the CA passphrase. This presents a challenge for automation tools like
ansible. With this change, ansible can store the CA passphrase in a
vault and supply it to `nebula-cert` via the `CA_PASSPHRASE`
environment variable for non-interactive signing.

Signed-off-by: Hal Martin <1230969+halmartin@users.noreply.github.com>

* name the variable NEBULA_CA_PASSPHRASE

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Signed-off-by: Hal Martin <1230969+halmartin@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: JackDoan <me@jackdoan.com>
This commit is contained in:
Hal Martin
2025-11-17 21:41:08 +01:00
committed by GitHub
parent 36c890eaad
commit 4df8bcb1f5
4 changed files with 69 additions and 33 deletions

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@@ -379,6 +379,15 @@ func Test_signCert(t *testing.T) {
assert.Equal(t, "Enter passphrase: ", ob.String())
assert.Empty(t, eb.String())
// test with the proper password in the environment
os.Remove(crtF.Name())
os.Remove(keyF.Name())
args = []string{"-version", "1", "-ca-crt", caCrtF.Name(), "-ca-key", caKeyF.Name(), "-name", "test", "-ip", "1.1.1.1/24", "-out-crt", crtF.Name(), "-out-key", keyF.Name(), "-duration", "100m", "-subnets", "10.1.1.1/32, , 10.2.2.2/32 , , ,, 10.5.5.5/32", "-groups", "1,, 2 , ,,,3,4,5"}
os.Setenv("NEBULA_CA_PASSPHRASE", string(passphrase))
require.NoError(t, signCert(args, ob, eb, testpw))
assert.Empty(t, eb.String())
os.Setenv("NEBULA_CA_PASSPHRASE", "")
// test with the wrong password
ob.Reset()
eb.Reset()
@@ -389,6 +398,17 @@ func Test_signCert(t *testing.T) {
assert.Equal(t, "Enter passphrase: ", ob.String())
assert.Empty(t, eb.String())
// test with the wrong password in environment
ob.Reset()
eb.Reset()
os.Setenv("NEBULA_CA_PASSPHRASE", "invalid password")
args = []string{"-version", "1", "-ca-crt", caCrtF.Name(), "-ca-key", caKeyF.Name(), "-name", "test", "-ip", "1.1.1.1/24", "-out-crt", crtF.Name(), "-out-key", keyF.Name(), "-duration", "100m", "-subnets", "10.1.1.1/32, , 10.2.2.2/32 , , ,, 10.5.5.5/32", "-groups", "1,, 2 , ,,,3,4,5"}
require.EqualError(t, signCert(args, ob, eb, nopw), "error while parsing encrypted ca-key: invalid passphrase or corrupt private key")
assert.Empty(t, ob.String())
assert.Empty(t, eb.String())
os.Setenv("NEBULA_CA_PASSPHRASE", "")
// test with the user not entering a password
ob.Reset()
eb.Reset()