On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 7:11 AM Christian, Mark <mark.christian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2020-01-30 at 12:27 +0000, Brian Candler wrote: > > As a concrete example: I want Alice to be able to login as "alice" > > and > > "www" to machines in group "webserver" (only). Also, I want Bob to > > be > > able to login as "bob" and "www" to machines in group "webserver" > > (only). > > Why can't you have a AuthorizedPrincipalsFile for alice, bob and www on > each of the "web servers", where the contents of the alice file include > the principal name alice, the contents of the bob file contain the bob > principal, and the contents of the www file contain the contents alice > and bob? Wouldn't that allow alice to ssh as alice, and www, and allow > bob to ssh as bob and www to any machines that had this > authorizedPrincipals file configuration? this is the right answer. you want to use AuthorizedPrincipalsFile (or AuthorizedPrincipalsCommand if your authz information needs to change on a quicker cadence than your config pushes) on the machines. you'd have something like $ cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config <snip> TrustedUserCAKeys /etc/ssh/TrustedUserCAKeys Match User www AuthorizedKeysFile /etc/ssh/empty AuthorizedPrincipalsFile /etc/ssh/www_authorizedPrincipals <snip> $ cat /etc/ssh/www_authorized_principals alice bob and alice and bob just have regular user certificates with 'alice' or 'bob' in the princpals _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev