[Freeipa-users] RHEL5 clients not getting ssh key

[Martin Kosek]

On 04/30/2015 02:56 PM, Aric Wilisch wrote:
> Is there a trick to getting a users SSH key that’s attached to their FreeIPA account to work on RHEL 5 servers? users can ssh into the RHEL 6 clients with no issues but they still get prompted for their passwords on the RHEL 5 server, so it’s not pushing down their ssh keys. 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Regards,
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> Aric Wilisch
> awilisch at gmail.com

Well, RHEL-5's latest build should be sssd-1.5.1-71.el5, but the SSH public key
support was added in SSSD 1.8:

https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/610

So I do not know any way besides upgrading to RHEL-6/RHEL-7 or backporting the
SSSD 1.8+ yourself (which I do not expect to be an easy task).

Martin