Easy Security Project: standalone ssh-ldap-helper

I’ve been waiting for quite a while for an official way to centrally manage user authentication keys in OpenSSH. If you have a dozen servers, copying authorized_keys files around is a pain. If you have more than that, it’s really really painful. The OpenSSH guys have had good reasons for not wanting to link LDAP libraries straight into OpenSSH. They also gave some general guidance of what they’d want to see in a patch that supported LDAP authentication.

Jan Chadima from Redhat took OpenSSH up...