SSH2 public keys in NIS+ table

[Kieran Lismore]

I was told that is possible to have a SSH public key in a NIS+ table, and having the SSH authentication done through the table entry rather then id_dsa_1024_a.pub file.

Thanks.

[Barry O Flanagan]

I'm pretty sure you can store any data in a NIS+ table if you create it yourself. Don't see any reason why you can't create one with a column for a SSH public key.

Have a look at the man page on 'nistbladm' and 'nisaddent'.

don't know about the other part of the Q though...

[Calvin Bebermeyer]

Though I have not done this, but it seems to me that all you would need to do is put the complete path to the key into the authorization file.

[Kieran Lismore]

First of all thanks for your replies.

In the http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/ssh_beyond.html the author refers to the following option on the ssh conf file:

PermittedKeysSource nis[:mapname] nisplus[:mapname] /var/ssh/userkeys ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

But I'm unable to find this option on the Openssh release...

did you ever heard about it?