OS Login is disabled on instance Affecting Compute Engine service in Google
Severity Framework
Snyk CCSS
Rule category
IAM / Usage
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- Snyk ID SNYK-CC-00393
- credit Snyk Research Team
Description
Google Cloud IAM roles cannot be used to manage SSH access to the instance.
How to fix?
Set metadata.enable-oslogin
attribute to true
.
Example Configuration
resource "google_compute_instance" "allowed_2" {
name = "test"
machine_type = "e2-medium"
zone = "us-central1-a"
boot_disk {
initialize_params {
image = "debian-cloud/debian-11"
}
}
network_interface {
network = "default"
}
metadata = {
enable-oslogin = true
}
}