Authenticating users from proprietary user databases

[Darren Tucker]

Yaniv Aknin wrote:
> Hrmf, how simple, I didn't think about patching getpwnam() et al 
> themselves, I was somehow locked on patching the nsswitch circuitry.
> But in this case, why not use LD_PRELOAD and avoid the need to build my 
> own OpenSSH and have two different OpenSSH builds?

Yeah that should work too.

Personally I prefer that daemons don't change their behaviour if you 
happen to restart them without some environment variable, but it sounds 
like it would be fine for your appliance environment.

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