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• ssh_host (string) - The address to SSH to. This usually is automatically configured by the builder.

• ssh_port (int) - The port to connect to SSH. This defaults to 22.

• ssh_username (string) - The username to connect to SSH with. Required if using SSH.

• ssh_password (string) - A plaintext password to use to authenticate with SSH.

• ssh_keypair_name (string) - If specified, this is the key that will be used for SSH with the machine. The key must match a key pair name loaded up into Amazon EC2. By default, this is blank, and Packer will generate a temporary keypair unless ssh_password is used. ssh_private_key_file or ssh_agent_auth must be specified when ssh_keypair_name is utilized.

• temporary_key_pair_name (string) - SSH Temporary Key Pair Name

• ssh_clear_authorized_keys (bool) - If true, Packer will attempt to remove its temporary key from ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. This is a mostly cosmetic option, since Packer will delete the temporary private key from the host system regardless of whether this is set to true (unless the user has set the -debug flag). Defaults to "false"; currently only works on guests with sed installed.

• ssh_private_key_file (string) - Path to a PEM encoded private key file to use to authenticate with SSH. The ~ can be used in path and will be expanded to the home directory of current user.

• ssh_interface (string) - One of public_ip, private_ip, public_dns, or private_dns. If set, either the public IP address, private IP address, public DNS name or private DNS name will used as the host for SSH. The default behaviour if inside a VPC is to use the public IP address if available, otherwise the private IP address will be used. If not in a VPC the public DNS name will be used. Also works for WinRM.

  Where Packer is configured for an outbound proxy but WinRM traffic should be direct, ssh_interface must be set to private_dns and <region>.compute.internal included in the NO_PROXY environment variable.

• ssh_ip_version (string) - SSHIP Version

• ssh_pty (bool) - If true, a PTY will be requested for the SSH connection. This defaults to false.

• ssh_timeout (time.Duration) - The time to wait for SSH to become available. Packer uses this to determine when the machine has booted so this is usually quite long. Example value: 10m.

• ssh_agent_auth (bool) - If true, the local SSH agent will be used to authenticate connections to the source instance. No temporary keypair will be created, and the values of ssh_password and ssh_private_key_file will be ignored. To use this option with a key pair already configured in the source AMI, leave the ssh_keypair_name blank. To associate an existing key pair in AWS with the source instance, set the ssh_keypair_name field to the name of the key pair.

• ssh_disable_agent_forwarding (bool) - If true, SSH agent forwarding will be disabled. Defaults to false.

• ssh_handshake_attempts (int) - The number of handshakes to attempt with SSH once it can connect. This defaults to 10.

• ssh_bastion_host (string) - A bastion host to use for the actual SSH connection.

• ssh_bastion_port (int) - The port of the bastion host. Defaults to 22.

• ssh_bastion_agent_auth (bool) - If true, the local SSH agent will be used to authenticate with the bastion host. Defaults to false.

• ssh_bastion_username (string) - The username to connect to the bastion host.

• ssh_bastion_password (string) - The password to use to authenticate with the bastion host.

• ssh_bastion_private_key_file (string) - Path to a PEM encoded private key file to use to authenticate with the bastion host. The ~ can be used in path and will be expanded to the home directory of current user.

• ssh_file_transfer_method (string) - scp or sftp - How to transfer files, Secure copy (default) or SSH File Transfer Protocol.

• ssh_proxy_host (string) - A SOCKS proxy host to use for SSH connection

• ssh_proxy_port (int) - A port of the SOCKS proxy. Defaults to 1080.

• ssh_proxy_username (string) - The optional username to authenticate with the proxy server.

• ssh_proxy_password (string) - The optional password to use to authenticate with the proxy server.

• ssh_keep_alive_interval (time.Duration) - How often to send "keep alive" messages to the server. Set to a negative value (-1s) to disable. Example value: 10s. Defaults to 5s.

• ssh_read_write_timeout (time.Duration) - The amount of time to wait for a remote command to end. This might be useful if, for example, packer hangs on a connection after a reboot. Example: 5m. Disabled by default.