Re: using ssh with LDAP user accounts (not /etc files) ??

From: Alim Manji (alim.manji@telus.com)
Date: 01/16/02

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    From: alim.manji@telus.com (Alim Manji)
Date: 15 Jan 2002 15:45:30 -0800

    slade@shore.net (Richard E. Silverman) wrote in message news:<m1lvge9fo8c.fsf@syrinx.oankali.net>...
    > >>>>> "AM" == Alim Manji <alim.manji@telus.com> writes:
    >
    > AM> Hi, can anyone tell me if this can be done? Or does ssh only work
    > AM> with local accounts? Thanks, Alim.
    >
    > It doesn't matter what the source of your account information is. All the
    > Unix SSH implementations I know of use the standard API (getpwuid() etc.)
    > to get account information, so as long as you have your host set up
    > properly (e.g. /etc/nsswitch.conf), it should be transparent.

    Excellent, this works, thanks! Another question, how do I generate
    host keys? I have OpenSSH 3.0.2p1 on a combination of Solaris 2.6 and
    8. Thanks in advance,

    Alim.

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