On Sun, 20 May 2007, Eric S. Johansson wrote:

> there is a number of ways I could be missing something obvious so I apologize
> in advance.
> 
> My idea is should be possible to grant sudo access with your ssh credentials.
> the logic is that once the server has granted access to a client based on its
> ssh keys, it should be possible to use the same authentication to grant sudo
> privileges.  After all, if a key pair is good enough to get you into one
> machine, why isn't it good enough to grant you the full Monty?
> 
> Assuming that it is, how could a local program determine that the process it
> is running in has done so via ssh key authentication.  Would it query the
> agent directly?  Would it be able to use agent forwarding?  Or is this a
> really bad idea that I should just give up on?

http://pam-ssh.sourceforge.net/

I saw this on another list, but have never used it myself.

  Jeremy C. Reed

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