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...t access -hmm. 3. I don't like the idea that the identity files and authorized_keys are kept in the user's home directory. That is certainly a valid option, but on my system, I want everything kept in /etc/ssh, and subdirectories, and only readable by root. ssh2 permitted this with the UserConfigDirectory configuration statement. I'd like to add the code to do this in OpenSSH. By the way, for the next 6 or 7 months I don't have a lot of time to devote to this (max 20%). Does this interest you? Best regards, Kern

Hi, In SSH, there is a way of telling ssh to look for identification files in a user-dependent location other than in default directory, $HOME/.ssh, without creating a separate ~/.ssh/config entry for each user. For example, in sshd_config one can specify UserConfigDirectory "/etc/ssh2/auth/%U" where %U stands for the incoming $USER. This is required for security if user home directories are NFS mounted. Has such a facility been implemented in OpenSSH? If so, can anyone tell me what the syntax is? I can't find anything in the man pages or FAQ...