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How to unseal a Vault in practice?

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Problem

It is possible to force that multiple keys have to be entered in order to unseal the vault. How does this work in practice? If someone has entered a key and there is another key required to unseal the vault should one ask a colleague to enter another key and how should this be done to prevent that colleague A or someone else sees that key?

Solution

I assume your vault would be being accessed over a network, so you would ask a colleague to use their own command line on their own workstation to enter their key. Mine requires 3 keys to unseal so I just have 3 users independently enter the vault unseal command with their key.

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StackExchange DevOps Q#2458, answer score: 4

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