Re:SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
by dizhn on Sunday April 05, 2026 @04:30AM
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I haven't used SSSD due it not being available for Alpine but doesn't it provide authentication via pam_sss ?
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Re:SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
by gnufx on Sunday April 05, 2026 @03:02PM
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Yes, but its authN components only act locally, and PAM is optional for sshd. It can/does call out to network services like Kerberos/LDAP given a password, of course, but I was thinking of network authN connected directly with OIDC somehow, for which I don't know a mechanism in vanilla OpenSSH. (I don't know what Authentik does for this -- I could imagine it's behind the scenes somehow.) I should probably look it up sometime.
Re:SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
by dizhn on Monday April 06, 2026 @09:46AM
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My understanding is since it's an agent running on the target, possibilities will be quite extensive. But it is relatively new and there is no stable release of it yet.
https://docs.goauthentik.io/endpoint-devices/authentik-agent...