[RFC PATCH 0/4] PAM module for ssh-agent user authentication

Domenico Andreoli
Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:25:04 -0000

On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 08:24:45PM -0700, Peter Moody
wrote:
> I wrote something a lot like this when I was at uber
>
>   https://github.com/pmoody-/pam-ussh
>
> (the uber version is here: https://github.com/uber/pam-ussh)

Needing PAM auth via ssh-agent is not so uncommon and yet using sshd
is not necessarily the first (or best) solution to come to mind.

Having it available as part of openssh would be a useful bridgehead for
educating users towards better solutions, when available, and anyway
practically improve the security of the status quo.

Superior solutions are not very useful if not widely adopted.

Dom

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