Using SSH keys for connection in Custom Scripts

[The-Astiks]

I have a small script that uses Junos PyEZ to connect to Juniper devices. This library allows to use SSH keys from file or SSH Agent for connection.
If I run script from the CLI (user is root), the script runs successfully. But if I run it from Web UI, script fails. I suppose that this is due to the script is launched from netbox user.

Is it possible to run scripts via UI from another user?
Or how can I allow netbox user to use ssh agent?

[candlerb]

Is it possible to run scripts via UI from another user?

To do that you would have to create a new queue, with its own netbox-rq worker, running as a different user. But it still wouldn't be able to find your ssh-agent, unless you set the environment variable SSH_AUTH_SOCK. (This is normally present in your shell environment, when you are running commands interactively).

Or how can I allow netbox user to use ssh agent?

By starting ssh-agent as the parent process of the netbox-rq worker, and then connecting to the agent to load your key and your passphrase (with ssh-add). When invoking ssh-add, you can set SSH_AUTH_SOCK explicitly to point to the correct socket location.