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retrieve SSH unique session ID


I wonder if there is any way to retrieve, for both a server and a client connected through ssh (OpenSSH), some unique session identifier (let this be USID).

This would be used to restrict the execution of a specific (custom) software (let it be a.exe), so it can only be executed through a specific ssh session, even if other users (potentially root) have access to that executable:

The communication channels between X and C, X and S are secure, so the only issue here is retrieving that USID without having to write my own ssh client and/or server.

Any ideas?


Solution

  • seems to me in a round about way, you are trying to re-implement kerberos. Seems to me that you want to GSSAPI secure the transport between client and server; so your client needs to authenticate to the server.

    Typical way of doing this would be to 'kinit' to a prinicpal using a keytab, and then passing this credential to the server. Kerberos ensures that it's reasonably hard to fake.

    that's probably going to be a little less brittle than the method that you describe above.

    -Ace