Passwordless SSH and RDP Access
This tutorial illustrates how users can employ PrivX's passwordless SSH and RDP access.
Key Concepts
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) (Steps 1-2)
- Roles governing access (Step 3)
- Passwordless SSH access (Steps 4-5)
- Passwordless RDP access (Steps 6-7)
Steps
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Our example user chris.hall logs in to PrivX.
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This PrivX instance has Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) active, so Chris checks the pin code from his authenticator application, for example Google Authenticator app.
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Chris has the roles rdp-user and ssh-user. These roles are set up to allow him passwordless RDP and SSH access on certain target hosts.
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To demonstrate role ssh user, Chris navigates to Connections, lists his available SSH hosts and clicks PrivXDemo Linux-3.
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On the target host, he is granted passwordless SSH access as user ubuntu.
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To demonstrate role rdp-user, he lists his available RDP hosts and clicks Administrator @ PrivXDemo Windows AD.
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On the target host, he is granted passwordless RDP access as user Administrator.