Chef/Security/SshPrivateKey

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The Cookstyle cops department: Chef/Security

Do not include plain text SSH private keys in your cookbook code. This sensitive data should be fetched from secrets management systems so that secrets are not uploaded in plain text to the Chef Infra Server or committed to source control systems.

Examples

incorrect

file '/Users/bob_bobberson/.ssh/id_rsa' do
  content '-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----\n...\n-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----'
  mode '600'
end

Configurable attributes