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Re: Per-user public key/password selection possible?

Subject: Re: Per-user public key/password selection possible?
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 09:46:16 +0100
On a HP-UX 11 system we have an account that was created by a script, with
a locked account - i.e. a "*" in  /etc/password
to prevent logging in to this account with password authentication.  Could
it still be possible to log in with ssh using pubkey authentication?


it works on linux, it may work on your system. I suppose your system is not 
using /etc/shadow

Be sure that your user has a valid shell in /etc/passwd

If you're using /etc/shadow, you may have a "x" in /etc/passwd (like every 
regular user) and something like a "*" or "!" in /etc/shadow (not sure this 
is necessary, but it works for me)

e.g., to have an user nammed "save", used in automatique backup replication 
(fish) :
/etc/passwd:
save:x:108:108:,,,:/home/save:/bin/bash
/etc/shadow:
save:!:13030:0:99999:7:::

Cheers,
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Raphaël Marichez

raphael.marichez@polytechnique.org

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