check-server-accounts

Check Server Accounts

This gem install the check-servers-account which connects using SSH to all your servers and ensure the login is working and also your password is still valid.

The application expect to connect to the given servers using an SSH key. In the case it worked, the application is then checking the sudo usage in order to validate that the given user can use it.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'check-server-accounts'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install check-server-accounts

Usage

ERROR: You must provide at least one server.

Usage: ./exe/check-server-accounts [options]
    -h, --help                       Show the help message
    -s, --server SERVER_NAME         Server to be checked
    -u, --username USERNAME          Username to be used when connecting to a server
    -p, --password PASSWORD          Password to be used when running sudo command

To check some servers with a different username than your current one:

check-server-accounts -u zedtux -s server1.com -s server2.com -s server3.com -s server4.com
Checking 4 servers ...

Checking account zedtux on server server1.com ... WRONG PASSWORD
Checking account zedtux on server server2.com ... PASSWORD EXPIRED
Checking account zedtux on server server3.com ... NO SSH KEY
Checking account zedtux on server server4.com ... OK

What sudo command is run

This application is using the sudo -l -U <username> command in order to determine if the login and password are good to run it. In this case the 'OK' is shown.

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/zedtux/check-server-accounts. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.