Authenticating users from proprietary user databases

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Tue Oct 6 16:36:01 EST 2009


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


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