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Feature Request - Load Credentials From Secure Sources #292
Typical enterprise environments may keep credentials in a local KeePass datafile. I'd like the option to load creds from external sources such as KeePass or Vault.
I'm very for this as most places I've worked a local file wouldn't be good enough. I propose an authentication driver/loader. We can provide an Authenticationabc driver where a user can overload it if they want and provide it via config just like netdevice loaders.
.get_credentials or something should be enforced with abc.abstractmethod to return a dict/tuple. The default driver could be an overloaded class Tacacsrc which does the current behavior.
We experimented a little w/ revamping Tacacsrc to use keyring. To @coxley's point, providing a plugin that is compatible w/ keyring and keyring backends would be a winner here.
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coxley commentedon May 25, 2016
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I'm very for this as most places I've worked a local file wouldn't be good enough. I propose an authentication driver/loader. We can provide an
Authenticationabcdriver where a user can overload it if they want and provide it via config just like netdevice loaders..get_credentialsor something should be enforced withabc.abstractmethodto return adict/tuple. The default driver could be an overloaded classTacacsrcwhich does the current behavior.jathanism commentedon Mar 23, 2017
We experimented a little w/ revamping Tacacsrc to use
keyring. To @coxley's point, providing a plugin that is compatible w/ keyring and keyring backends would be a winner here.See an example here: https://gist.github.com/jathanism/287ae6705d206039efdc5b1bd324f368