From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Johan Booysen Sent: 20 March 2008 08:58 To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: host keys authentication I have an FTP server using SSH for secure file uploads/downloads. Users are chrooted into their home directories, and it works very well. Now we have the requirement that a client wants to upload/download via some or other automated process or script, so I need to work out how to do that via host keys or something similar. I understand generating keys using ssh-keygen, and so on, but I'm not sure of the specifics of allowing a user or machine on the client side to automatically authenticate using public keys, and making sure that they are then still chrooted into their home folder on the FTP server. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've been googling it, but haven't really hit upon a good source of information for this kind of setup yet.
Are you saying the client is going to be using SFTP and/or SCP and you would like to use Public Key Authentication (PKA) with no password? Or are you trying to use FTP/s or something entirely different? What are the clients, and what are the client platforms that will need to be supported?
If you are trying to implement SFTP/SCP with PKA you might take a look at http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/ or http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/. I successfully implemented both for setting up accounts for SFTP/SCP only access along with PKA for password-less logins.
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