After reinstalling OH2.5M5 on openHABian I now have to provide credentials for running openhab-cli console

[shutterfreak (Olivier Biot)]

@rlkoshak

Did you re-add your public key to /var/lib/openhab2/etc/keys.properties?

So far I never generated any key for my openHAB setup. This key must thus have been generated by the first-time installer (the openhabian installer?).

The only nonblank or non-comment line in /var/lib/openhab2/etc/keys.properties is:

$ cat /var/lib/openhab2/etc/keys.properties | grep -vE '^$|^#'
_g_\:admingroup = group,admin,manager,viewer,systembundles,ssh

Does this mean I have to generate an SSH key for the openhabian user and add the public key to /var/lib/openhab2/etc/keys.properties? The approch depicted in the following post does not work, I still have to provide the password for openhab:

Security of Karaf console

No problem, I assume you’re on a Debian variant (openHABian etc): 1. Generate the key Start by generating the private and public key for the client you use to connect: ssh-keygen This will ask you a set of questions, and output a private and a public key file (by default this is /home/<username>/.ssh/id_rsa.pub where <username> is probably openhabian. 2. Copy the public key Read in the public key string and copy it, for example if you use the command: cat /home/<username>/.ssh/id_rsa.pub Y…

Here’s what I get:

[16:49:15] openhabian@openhab:~$ ssh -p 8101 openhab@localhost
Password authentication
Password: 

[16:49:23] openhabian@openhab:~$ openhab-cli console

Logging in as openhab
Password:  

[16:52:00] openhabian@openhab:~$ openhab-cli console -k ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Logging in as openhab
Password:  

Remark: Karaf reports it’s on version 4.2.7.