[openssh-unix-dev] Re: Creating users "on - the - fly"

[Cary FitzHugh]

Thanks for the tip on name service switch extensions -- I shall look..
Maybe adding something that lets you query the users there is all I
need... we'll see.

The AuthorizedKeysCommand could be a script - and figures out
everything - the ssh connection doesn't' get that far when the user
doesn't exist on the system yet :(

Hence  - maybe a NSS User Database extension which looks for the
public keys from a webservice (and then maybe writes them to
/tmp/<username>.

The AuthorzedKeysCommand could then just return the tmp/username information..

Hoping the NSS shows some promise.. Wow , thanks for all the help!

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Scott Neugroschl <scott_n at xypro.com> wrote:
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>>> However - as I got into that - I realized that I have no way to "find"
>>> just the keys for a single user.  Since the only argument to that ssh
>>> keys command, is the username.  It's not HTTP so I couldn't point at a
>>> subdomain and use that to look up the information.
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>>You may be interested in the bug report "extend the parameters to the
>>AuthorizedKeysCommand":
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>  > https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2081
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> Why not have the Authorized Keys Command  be a script that figures out  the domain from the username?
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>