also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.03.11.1944 +0100]: > > What are you actually trying to *do*? > > see my other post.
as it wasn't sent to the list: because i would like to write a large-scale dyndns method. this means that i have a 1:n association between keys and domains that they can change. administering this in authorized_keys is a pain. it would be much nicer if i could use the environment for that: a user dyndns has a shell /usr/local/bin/dns-update which can be controlled via stdin. now the user just does something like: echo myzone.com myhost 1.2.3.4 | ssh -i id_dsa.dyndns [EMAIL PROTECTED] and on the server side i can use a postgres database to check if the key used has the right to modify myzone.com. doing this in authorized_keys for about 700 users is a pain. i could write a wrapper, sure, but i'd still have about 1000 entries in the authorized_keys file, for which a flat file is not the best. moreover, my solution feels less like a hack. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The pgp.net keyservers and their mirrors are broken! Get my key here: http://people.debian.org/~madduck/gpg/330c4a75.asc
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