* wg-quick: Read private key from file?
@ 2018-12-27 16:51 Rene 'Renne' Bartsch, B.Sc. Informatics
2018-12-27 17:11 ` Lonnie Abelbeck
2018-12-27 18:58 ` Samuel Holland
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From: Rene 'Renne' Bartsch, B.Sc. Informatics @ 2018-12-27 16:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,
does wg-quick allow to read the private key from a file instead of a .conf-file?
Regards,
Renne
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* Re: wg-quick: Read private key from file?
2018-12-27 16:51 wg-quick: Read private key from file? Rene 'Renne' Bartsch, B.Sc. Informatics
@ 2018-12-27 17:11 ` Lonnie Abelbeck
2018-12-27 18:58 ` Samuel Holland
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From: Lonnie Abelbeck @ 2018-12-27 17:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rene 'Renne' Bartsch, B.Sc. Informatics; +Cc: WireGuard mailing list
> On Dec 27, 2018, at 10:51 AM, Rene 'Renne' Bartsch, B.Sc. Informatics <ml@bartschnet.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> does wg-quick allow to read the private key from a file instead of a .conf-file?
>
> Regards,
>
> Renne
You could create a wg-quick-wrapper script that aggregates files from where-ever you like before it calls wg-quick and then cleans-up tmp files.
Or just re-write wg-quick to suit your needs.
Lonnie
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* Re: wg-quick: Read private key from file?
2018-12-27 16:51 wg-quick: Read private key from file? Rene 'Renne' Bartsch, B.Sc. Informatics
2018-12-27 17:11 ` Lonnie Abelbeck
@ 2018-12-27 18:58 ` Samuel Holland
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From: Samuel Holland @ 2018-12-27 18:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rene 'Renne' Bartsch, B.Sc. Informatics, wireguard
On 12/27/18 10:51, Rene 'Renne' Bartsch, B.Sc. Informatics wrote:
> does wg-quick allow to read the private key from a file instead of a .conf-file?
Yes, and the manual page wg-quick(8) even has an example of how to read the
private key from an external source:
Or, perhaps it is desirable to store private keys in encrypted form, such
as through use of pass(1):
PostUp = wg set %i private-key <(pass WireGuard/private-keys/%i)
If you want to use a file, just provide the filename, as in:
PostUp = wg set %i private-key /etc/wireguard/wg0.key
From the wg(8) manual page:
Both private-key and preshared-key must be a files, because command line
arguments are not considered private on most systems; but if you are using
bash(1), you may safely pass in a string by specifying as private-key or
preshared-key the expression: <(echo PRIVATEKEYSTRING).
There's no need to write additional wrapper scripts or anything like that.
If you weren't aware of those two manual pages, I suggest reading through both.
It will answer most of your questions :)
Hope that helps,
Samuel
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