[Bug 911747] Re: [Feature] Add AuthorizedKeysCommand to OpenSSH

[mrw]

«Lobby upstream» means here:
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1663

Unfortunately there is also no one responsible for it,  as it seems and
it hangs around since years, same as here. :-(

I need to get the authorized keys from LDAP, so I need either the LPK-
patch or this AuthorizedKeysCommand-patch.

See also my repository for patched builds:
http://marc.wäckerlin.ch/computer/blog/ssh_and_ldap

LPK patch is also orphaned here: http://code.google.com/p/openssh-lpk

So everything is working, but hanging around for years in the
maintainers bug tracking ... really an awful situation! Praise RedHat
for at least doing something!


** Bug watch added: OpenSSH Portable Bugzilla #1663
   https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1663

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Title:
  [Feature] Add AuthorizedKeysCommand to OpenSSH

Status in “openssh” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  RedHat recently applied a patch to their OpenSSH server supporting a
  new configuration directive: AuthorizedKeysCommand

  For example:

  */etc/ssh/sshd_config*
  AuthorizedKeysCommand "/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-pubkey-helper -s %u"

  In 'ssh-pubkey-helper' you can write custom code for looking up public
  keys.

  This is useful in large server environments when you don't want to
  overwrite the authorized_keys file on every server.

  We are running a couple of hundred Ubuntu servers and would like to
  see this patch in OpenSSH. It would give us (and other users) the
  benefit of having one central place where we maintain our
  authorization and accounting.

  The benefit for a lot of Ubuntu users will be great I think.

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