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

[Cary FitzHugh]

Someone wrote this for NSS - https://github.com/donapieppo/libnss-ato

And this seems to be doing sortof what I'm hoping to do, just doing it
with hosts, not User database stuff.

https://github.com/troxor/libnss_consul

So - maybe a combination of these two things will work!

Thanks again. we'll see how it goes :)
Cary

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Cary FitzHugh <cary.fitzhugh at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>>>You may be interested in the bug report "extend the parameters to the
>>>AuthorizedKeysCommand":
>>
>>  > https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2081
>>
>>
>> Why not have the Authorized Keys Command  be a script that figures out  the domain from the username?
>>
>>