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SSH key & access management
1 point by mdomans on July 29, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Is this just me or managing ssh keys is still in 1990? I freelance for a few companies which means about 100 new lines in .ssh/config. How do you guys solve this?



What exactly is your problem?

My .ssh/config file is 4kb, it has 77 HostName entries, it's easily backed up (and if I lose it I wouldn't really cry about it) and it's easy to maintain (every once in a while I add another server).

I'm not saying that this scales to large teams of developers and hundreds or more servers, but at this scale I really see no problems.


Likewise. We have a couple of dozen servers, for multiple clients (we're a web agency).

Provided you're organized, document things properly, and have a standard set of SSH keys, the only annoying part is the 30 seconds it takes to create a new entry in .ssh/config (or whatever ssh client you use).


You could take a look at freeIPA or RedHat IDM. This takes care of things for you.




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