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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi Team,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We are running PCS 0.12.2 on RHEL 8 with Pacemaker 3.0.1 and Corosync 3.1.10. Our security compliance framework (CIS Benchmarks, vendor-specific GPRs) requires that all OS accounts have password expiry policies enforced.
The hacluster account used by pcs cluster auth currently requires a static password, which conflicts with this requirement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We are aware of the long-standing feature request pcs#179 (key-based authentication, opened 2018). In March 2022, Tomas Jelinek confirmed it was on the backlog with no ETA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Our questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">1. Is there any updated timeline for key-based/certificate-based authentication in PCS 0.12.x ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">2. Are there any alternative mechanisms in PCS 0.12.x to authenticate nodes without relying on the hacluster password (e.g., token-based, certificate mutual TLS)?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Our current workaround is periodic automated password rotation with re-authentication across all cluster nodes, but this introduces operational risk during the rotation window.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Any guidance or roadmap update would be appreciated.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Thanks and Regards,<br>
S Sathish S<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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