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Language: en-US (English)
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Description: All throughout this exercise (and every other exercise in the book) you can log in as various users without ever seeing a prompt for a password. You can log in even as the Windows Administrator without a password. It's not clear if this is because of Active Directory or anything we've configured. See some examples in this exercise:
Step 2.14
Step 7
Step 14
Step 22

The actual reason is that there is a lab grading key configured in sshd_config on all the machines in the lab environment (idm, replica1, replica2, client, tower, utility, satellite):
AuthorizedKeysFile /etc/.rht_authorized_keys

The student user has access to this key on workstation: /home/student/.ssh/lab_rsa

I don't see the benefit of having this key configured. The fact that it is not explained in the student guide can cause confusions. We are not having kerberos-based Single Sign-on here. This is an ssh key that lets student log in anywhere as anyone without a password.