[Freeipa-users] RHEL5 clients not getting ssh key

[Jakub Hrozek]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 03:13:44PM +0200, Martin Kosek wrote:
> 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,
> > ------------------------------------------
> > 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).

The 1.9 branch should build and work on RHEL-5.

The newer branches might not (iow, upstream dropped RHEL-5 support).