On Fri 2015-02-06 12:41:38 -0500, Cary FitzHugh wrote: > The trouble is that the user isn't created on the machine beforehand. > But I actually don't want the user created, b/c I don't want to litter > all these servers with little user directories. Users may be > transient as well - so littering the directories of these machines > with tons of data just causes many other problems (running out of > inodes, disk-space, etc). If this is your only concern, most systems don't require that a user have a unique home directory at all. You could create a /home/nobody which is unusable by anyone, and populate the systems's user table with users (maybe via some sensible nameservice switch module) pointing at that directory as their homedir. In other words, i don't think this is an ssh problem, it can be solved directly in other parts of your OS. --dkg _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev