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Operating Systems Solaris Passing SSH Command Parameters Post 302109099 by PabloCruise77 on Friday 2nd of March 2007 09:03:37 PM
Old 03-02-2007
Question Passing SSH Command Parameters
On Solaris 5.9, is there any way to pass parameter(s), via SSH, to a command defined in the remote host's authorized_keys file?

We have a menu that uses SSH to control some apps on our various hosts. I've been tasked with enhancing it and making it more secure.

So far, the local host menu will use SSH to call a .ksh script on the remote host, with one of 4 parameters, to either start, stop, restart or check a program's status. That works fine.

What we would like to do is this:

1. Put the remote .ksh script name in the authorized_keys file, on the remote host, in the front of the key line, for the user calling it, from the local host. That would limit the user, using the menu, to only being able to run this .ksh script.

2. When the user make a choice on the local host menu, pass only the chosen parameter via the SSH login.

When I try it, the remote .ksh script runs, but errors out due to the parameter passing failing.

Is there any way to pass just the parameter(s)?
 

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libgnome-keyring

libgnome-keyring(3)						C Library Functions					       libgnome-keyring(3)

NAME

       libgnome-keyring - gnome keyring library.

DESCRIPTION

       GNOME Keyring is a system to store passwords and other sensitive data in a standardized way across all GNOME applications.

       A  keyring  stores  a collection of encrypted passwords and encrypted information about those passwords. A user can have multiple keyrings,
       each for a different use, but there is a default one, called 'login'. There is also a special 'session' keyring which is not stored on disk
       and goes away when you log out.

       When a user logs into GNOME, the keyrings are locked and a master keyring password has to be provided in order to unlock each of them.

       GNOME  Keyring  includes  an  SSH  agent which integrates with the gnome-keyring and user login for its passwords. It can also use the main
       X.509 private key store.

       GNOME Keyring will set the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environment variable when it starts up.

       The id_rsa and id_dsa files in ~/.ssh are automatically usable through the SSH agent without first 'loading' them. Other X.509 private keys
       marked with the 'ssh-authentication' purpose are also usable.

       Additional SSH keys can be manually loaded and managed via the ssh-add command.

       If  you	use another SSH agent(such as the ssh-agent included with OpenSSH), you may want to disable the SSH agent in GNOME Keyring to pre-
       vent ssh from using it instead of your prefered SSH agent. You can set /apps/gnome-keyring/daemon-components/ssh gconf key to  false.  This
       prevents the SSH component of gnome-keyring from starting up when the user logs in.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-libs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnome-keyring-daemon(1), attributes(5), gnome-interfaces(5)

       http://library.gnome.org/devel/gnome-keyring/stable/

NOTES

       Written by Jeff Cai, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

SunOS 5.11							    31 Jul 2008 					       libgnome-keyring(3)
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