Can't set a specific API key through the API or UI

[Jason Hobbs]

There is no way, through the API or CLI, to set an API key for a user to specific value. I'm setting up a new MAAS to replace an existing MAAS server. I want to reuse the MAAS API keys from my existing MAAS server so I don't have to redistribute new API keys to all my infrastructure that uses it.

To work around this, I wrote a script that used sql directly to set the key values in the piston_consumer and piston_token tables in the database.

This was with MAAS 1.8.2.

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

It is my understanding that by design, the API is to be generated automatically by MAAS and not allow the user to change that or specify one themselves. That being said, I don't know if we would like to support this in the future, but at the moment it is nto something that has priority.

[Blake Rouse (blake-rouse)]

Yeah this seems like it could be a security issue. Don't really like this idea at all. It would just as simple to update the API key on the caller.

[Blake Rouse (blake-rouse)]

I am "+1" for marking this "Won't fix."

[Jason Hobbs (jason-hobbs)]

Why would it be a security issue? It's not just as simple to update on the caller - the caller is in multiple places, MAAS is just in one.

[Adam Collard (adam-collard)]

This bug has not seen any activity in the last 6 months, so it is being automatically closed.

If you are still experiencing this issue, please feel free to re-open.

MAAS Team