[clue-admin] User setup for "member" accounts
David Anselmi
anselmi at anselmi.us
Sun Jan 2 15:43:22 MST 2005
Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 14:29:56 -0700
> Collins Richey wrote:
>
>>A summary of what I've found thus far:
>>
>>1. We've already determined that we want public key authentication.
>
> Yeah, but I wonder if there's any way to enforce that. It's sort of a
> catch-22, because members will need to use password authentication to
> transfer their public ssh key to the CLUE server to start with.
The admins can put the keys in for the users. "Send me your public key
and I'll give you your user name."
> unless there's some system-id stuff encoded into the private key. But
> I don't think that's the case. (Maybe nodename?)
There isn't. Or if there is, it doesn't matter for authentication.
Dave
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