Publickey Authentication for a domain account
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Aug 22 15:23:00 GMT 2005
On Aug 22 10:43, Shawn Marriott wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> Is there any way to do Publickey Authentication for a domain account
> with Cygwins port of OpenSSH?
>
> The situation I am in is as such;
>
> There is a website that allows users to re/set their passwords
> provide they answer some questions.
> The users new plaintext password is stored in file and transfered
> off the webserver using scp
> A domain controller receives the file, and sets the users password
> to the new one.
>
> Currently a Username/Password pair is used to authenticate scp from the
> webserver to the domain controller,
> we would like to use Username/Publickey pair to authenticate.
>
> My preliminary reading suggests that this may not be possible.
> Is this the case?
It is possible, provided the user has an entry in the local /etc/passwd
and the home directory in the local /etc/passwd is set to a local dir.
Corinna
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