Pls take a look at: OpenSSH LDAP Public Key Patch http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/openssh-lpk/ If you have success installing and using it, pls share with us later. Gary -----Original Message----- From: fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jimmy Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 1:05 AM To: fedora-directory-users at redhat.com Subject: Re: Public key based authentication with Redhat Directory Server > Jimmy wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Is it possible with Redhat Directory Server to use public key >> authentication for all our Linux based servers?. I am looking to setup a central authentication scheme. So that all of the technical staff can use key based authentication from a central location. > > sure. have you started reading this ?. > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/7.1/ssl.html#996824 I dont think thats what im trying to do. We want to use public key based authentication with SSH, However that then needs to authenticate against the OS. I was wondering if there was any built in method to do that. It appears as though I will have to patch all of the OpenSSH daemons to make that work. However that still leaves the server to support the keys in the structure. > > --Chandra > >> Currently we have it >> setup individually for each system. However we would like to go to a >> centrally managed solution to keep it easy and allow us to scale much >> more effectivly. >> >> Any advice would be great. >> >> Regards, >> >> Jimmy >> >> -- >> Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users >> > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users