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operasoftware / ssh-key-authority

A tool for managing SSH key access to any number of servers.
Apache License 2.0
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Is LDAP required? #21

Open MagicFab opened 6 years ago

MagicFab commented 6 years ago

README indicates LDAP support but it's not clear if it's required. Thanks for clarifying this.

thomas-pike commented 6 years ago

Currently LDAP is required, as our design requirement was "must be integrated with our LDAP". There are some minor patches I can do that would allow local authentication to work in a rough way, but building a nice user experience for it would take more work.

MagicFab commented 6 years ago

@thomas-pike thanks for clarifying this!

Given the context is self-hosted, LAN-only access, I think that would be a nice alternative and a good way to get more adoption (and possibly contributions) for this application. Apache authentication comes to mind, but I am not familiar with your code.

I can help testing, documenting and translating, I'll keep subscribed here and watch any ongoing progress.

I've also made a pull request to add LDAP as a hard requirement in the list in the README.