ssh-permit-a38

Central management and deployment for SSH keys

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Central management and deployment for SSH keys

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there is the AuthorizedKeyscommand feature that allows for a command to fetch keys not yet existing on a system. Gitlab uses it to fetch keys from a database, for central user and access management. They also ship a own sshd implementation which does kinda neat lookup things for very big databases. theres already projects solving central ssh key management, for example: https://github.com/ierror/ssh-permit-a38 (distributes via authorized keys) https://github.com/netlore/OpenAKC https://tenshidev.medium.com/centralized-ssh-authentication-... and https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/operations/fast_ss...

Solutions: https://gist.github.com/sivel/c68f601137ef9063efd7 - uses AuthorizedKeysCommand to make a remote server the authoritative source of your SSH keys, so (if you wanted to) you could make GitHub your key provider. https://github.com/ierror/ssh-permit-a38 - 3 years old but that's not necessarily an issue https://github.com/gravitational/teleport