Authenticating users from proprietary user databases

[Peter Stuge]

Yaniv Aknin wrote:
> I'd like the separation to be complete enough that it would be
> possible to create a user in the CLI called, say, "root", and have
> that user be completely unrelated to Linuxes /etc/passwd UID-0 user
> root we all know.

You want a new namespace so you can not use nss. And you will need
one sshd for each namespace.


> I'm willing to go with "override getpwnam()" method suggested by
> Darren

I think it's the easiest way.


//Peter