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On 8/3/11 4:47 AM, Ondrej Valousek wrote:
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Maybe stupid question, but I have to ask:<br>
Why would anyone want to store user RSA keys in LDAP? Once you
have IPA server with KDC installed, you can use Kerberos for
authentication as well.<br>
And you get single sign on as a special bonus :-)</blockquote>
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If you only work in a single administrative domain, this is fine. I
am constantly accessing systems all over the US, and
internationally, and the use of ssh-key-based authentication allows
me to do this without continuous password prompts. In fact, on many
of the systems I can *only* access them by ssh-key. Being able to
hold those keys in central keystore like FreeIPA with a single
passphrase, and the ability for an administrator to reset that
passphrase, is very desirable for me and for the other users of the
systems I'm a part of. Resetting key-based access control if the
private key passphrase is lost is always a nuisance.<br>
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Ian<br>
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