You could use the _ZOS_USER_SSH_CONFIG environment variable to point all to
the same file.

In that file, you could have:

IdentityKeyRingLabel "* SSH-KEY"

This would use the user's virtual keyring and label "SSH-KEY".

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Mark Jacobs <[email protected]>wrote:

> No, what I'm looking to do is to perform a staged migration from OpenSSH
> generated keypairs into RACF certificates. Our current situation is as
> follows, we have many (several hundred) sftp processes, each running under
> their own unique RACF userid with public/private keys already generated and
> being used for production file transfer activities.
>
> Thanks to your assistance on the Dovetail bulletin board, I was able to
> successfully convert a OpenSSH generated private key and import it into a
> keyring associated with my personal userid.
>
> My goal is to convert and import, every users private key into a userid
> specific key ring, and have that certificate used for authentication
> purposes to the target server. I'm looking for a method to generically tell
> OpenSSH to use the keyring/certificate that's defined for that RACF userid
> without having to have a zos_user_ssh_config file for each user.
>
> Mark Jacobs
>
>
> On 11/06/12 14:03, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>>
>> IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH doesn't allow you to specify IdentityKeyRingLabel
>> in the global /etc/ssh/zos_ssh_config file.
>>
>> You can also specify this option as a command line switch or environment
>> variable, if that helps.
>>
>> Do you want to share the actual SAF(RACF/ACF2/TSS) key ring and private
>> key
>> between users?     This can be done, but the required SAF permissions are
>> a
>> little tricky and not documented very well.
>>
>> Kirk Wolf
>> Dovetailed Technologies
>> http://dovetail.com
>> +1 636.300.0901
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Mark 
>> Jacobs<mark.jacobs@custserv.**com<[email protected]>
>> >wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Before I dig even further into the manuals, does anyone know if there's a
>>> way to specify in a globally accessible ssh configuration file to use a
>>> certificate attached to a key ring for the private key?
>>>
>>> I know I can use the user specific zos_user_ssh_config file, but I'd like
>>> to utilize a single controlling configuration file, rather than a
>>> plethora
>>> of user files.
>>>
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