Security Intermediate About 25 min +190 XP

Developer SSH Login Is Rejected

The dev automation account's SSH logins from the deploy runner are refused, and scheduled deploy jobs cannot reach the host.

Stage 2 of 4 in Breach Response.

Briefing

Containment on this host finished an hour ago, and the cleanup that went with it swept more home directories than intended.

Since then the automation account dev has failed to log in from the deploy runner at 10.0.4.17 every ten minutes.

Security approved re-installing dev's public key from ticket OPS-4471, and only that key.

The runner team suspects their own key rotation.

The fix is yours to find: hints, the recovery checks and the debrief unlock inside the incident.

How it plays

  1. 01

    Get paged

    The alert fires and the clock starts. Read the page and the briefing.

  2. 02

    Investigate

    Work in a simulated shell with realistic output: logs, configs, services.

  3. 03

    Fix it

    Change the system the way you would in production. Hints are there if you get stuck.

  4. 04

    Prove it

    Automated checks verify the recovery, then the debrief explains what happened.

Your pager is ready.

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