SSH Socket Setup GitHub Action

Set up (or re-use) an SSH socket with a private key.

Usage

Inputs

Following inputs can be used as step.with keys

Name	Required	Type	Description
host	Yes	String	Remote hostname.
port	No	Number	SSH Port (default: 22).
socket-path	No	String	Path at which to create socket.
key	Yes	String	base64 private key
lifetime	No	Number	Seconds to keep key (default: 600)
purge-entry	No	Boolean	Purge known_hosts entry for host (default: true)

You may encode your private key in base64 via:

openssl base64 -in {PRIVATE_KEY_FILE} -out {OUTPUT_PRIVATE_KEY_FILE}

Store that in GitHub Secrets to securely pass to the action.

Outputs

Name	Description
socket-path	Path at which socket was created
agent-pid	SSH Agent PID.

Example usage

- name: SSH Socket Setup
  id: ssh-socket-action
  uses: sourcetoad/ssh-socket-action@v1
  with:
      host: github.com
      port: 22 # optional
      socket-path: /tmp/ssh_agent.sock # optional
      key: ${{ secrets.BASE64_SECRET_KEY }}

- name: Use SSH socket
  run: ls -l "${{ steps.ssh-socket-action.outputs.socket-path }}"

Development

Install package dependencies:

npm install

Build dist/index.js:

npm run build

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Install as Local Action

For quicker troubleshooting cycles, the action can be copied directly into another project. This way, changes to the action and it's usage can happen simultaneously, in one commit.

1. Copy this repository into your other project as .github/actions/ssh-socket-action. Be careful: simply cloning in place will likely install it as a submodule--make sure to copy the files without .git
2. In your other project's workflow, in the action step, set
   uses: ./.github/actions/ssh-socket-action
3. When making changes to the local action, make sure to rebuild dist and commit it