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userify / shim

shim

The Userify Shim (cloud agent)

5Distinct people
13Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
66GitHub stars
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What it is

The Userify Shim (cloud agent)

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 12:03:30 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-02-19 01:28:34 UTC to 2026-03-03 23:17:34 UTC.

012342015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Technical explanation: Userify synchronizes your team's SSH authorized_keys files. Using a web dashboard (red=root, green=user, white=none), change permissions or remove access for that user across all server/instances in that group. Users who don't have access can't even see that the group or project exists, but if they do they can see the IP addresses of all the servers they can log into. Users update their own keys into their own portal, and the changes are pushed out to all servers they have access to automatically. Users can enable MFA individually or you can enforce MFA across your entire company. (No MFA, no login) Your servers run a small (https://github.com/userify/shim) python script that continuously checks in with Userify via HTTPS (multi-cloud, only needs outbound HTTPS access from the server to Userify or your internal Useri
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fy host). If a user no longer exists for that group, all sessions are actively killed (kill -9), the user account is deleted, and the home directory is renamed to /home/deleted:username so you can review the files in there at your convenience. If a user is later restored, that directory is automatically restored as well. No changes to the OS (no PAM modifications) and you can remove instantly. It's available via SaaS (Userify Cloud, zero-install) or you can install your own server in your VPC or LAN for data sovereignty. You can also integrate it with Active Directory so that a user who is deleted/locked-out/disabled in AD has the same status cascade through all of your Linux servers.
In Show HN: Userify SSH Key Manager

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