host keys authentication
Scott Ruckh
sruckh at gemneye.org
Fri Mar 21 05:44:01 UTC 2008
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Johan Booysen
> Sent: 20 March 2008 08:58
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: host keys authentication
>
> I have an FTP server using SSH for secure file uploads/downloads. Users
> are chrooted into their home directories, and it works very well.
>
> Now we have the requirement that a client wants to upload/download via
> some or other automated process or script, so I need to work out how to
> do that via host keys or something similar. I understand generating
> keys using ssh-keygen, and so on, but I'm not sure of the specifics of
> allowing a user or machine on the client side to automatically
> authenticate using public keys, and making sure that they are then still
> chrooted into their home folder on the FTP server.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction? I've been googling it, but
> haven't really hit upon a good source of information for this kind of
> setup yet.
>
Are you saying the client is going to be using SFTP and/or SCP and you would
like to use Public Key Authentication (PKA) with no password? Or are you
trying to use FTP/s or something entirely different? What are the clients,
and what are the client platforms that will need to be supported?
If you are trying to implement SFTP/SCP with PKA you might take a look at
http://www.pizzashack.org/rssh/ or http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/. I
successfully implemented both for setting up accounts for SFTP/SCP only
access along with PKA for password-less logins.
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