Client Connected: authorized_keys

2018/06/07

An authentication server is no use without some sort of client to obtain information from it. NetKeys is a client to NetAuth that can retrieve keys for any daemon that wishes to obtain the public keys for an entity, but most usually this would be sshd.

To pull keys from NetAuth to put into sshd the following two lines need to be added to sshd_config:

AuthorizedKeysCommandUser <some_dedicated_local_user>
AuthorizedKeysCommand /path/to/NetKeys --ID %u

An important consideration though is that the keys are not cached locally. If there is a network parttion between the end host and the NetAuth server then the keys will not be available.

The code for NetKeys lives at GitHub.

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