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6 sss_ssh_authorizedkeys - get OpenSSH authorized keys
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9 sss_ssh_authorizedkeys [options] USER
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12 sss_ssh_authorizedkeys acquires SSH public keys for user USER and
13 outputs them in OpenSSH authorized_keys format (see the
14 “AUTHORIZED_KEYS FILE FORMAT” section of sshd(8) for more information).
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16 sshd(8) can be configured to use sss_ssh_authorizedkeys for public key
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18 “AuthorizedKeysCommand” option. Please refer to the sshd_config(5) man
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21 If “AuthorizedKeysCommand” is supported, sshd(8) can be configured to
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24 AuthorizedKeysCommand /usr/bin/sss_ssh_authorizedkeys
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28 KEYS FROM CERTIFICATES
29 In addition to the public SSH keys for user USER sss_ssh_authorizedkeys
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33 To enable this the “ssh_use_certificate_keys” option must be set to
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49 can be used to control how the certificates are validated (see
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52 The validation is the benefit of using X.509 certificates instead of
53 SSH keys directly because e.g. it gives a better control of the
54 lifetime of the keys. When the ssh client is configured to use the
55 private keys from a Smartcard with the help of a PKCS#11 shared library
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77 sssd(8), sssd.conf(5), sssd-ldap(5), sssd-krb5(5), sssd-simple(5),
78 sssd-ipa(5), sssd-ad(5), sssd-files(5), sssd-sudo(5), sssd-session-
79 recording(5), sss_cache(8), sss_debuglevel(8), sss_obfuscate(8),
80 sss_seed(8), sssd_krb5_locator_plugin(8), sss_ssh_authorizedkeys(8),
81 sss_ssh_knownhostsproxy(8), sssd-ifp(5), pam_sss(8). sss_rpcidmapd(5)
82 sssd-systemtap(5)
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