openssh keys in ldap

Jarno Huuskonen Jarno.Huuskonen at uku.fi
Tue Jul 17 04:50:24 EST 2001


Hi,

On Mon, Jul 16, Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> I've got a script which uploads the keys to the LDAP server (over a Kerberos 
> authenticated connection) and generates the ssh_known_hosts file (again using 
> a Kerberos authenticated connection). We drive this from an rc.d style script 
> which generates and uploads the key as necessary, and updates the known_hosts 
> file nightly. All of this doesn't require touching the ssh code base at all.
> 
> Our LDAP map is RFC2307-compliant - we add a new 'sshHost' auxiliary object 
> class to the host records in it, which adds 'sshKey' and 'sshRSAKey' 
> attributes to each host's information. These are used for version 2 and 
> version 1 host keys respectively - the sshKey attribute is multi-valued 
> allowing the use of different types of version 2 keys.
> 
> If you're interested I can package up the script, our schema definitions, and 
> the (OpenLDAP) server configuration thats required to make all of this work
> and make it available.

This sounds interesting, I would really appreciate if you could package
all the necessary stuff for others to use.

Thanks,
-Jarno

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Jarno Huuskonen <Jarno.Huuskonen at uku.fi>



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