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Better SSH Authorized Keys Management

A seemingly common problem that people encounter is how to handle all of your users authorized_keys file.

People struggle over management, ensuring that users only have specific keys in the authorized_keys file or even a method for expiring keys. A centralized key management system could help provide all of this functionality with a little scripting.

One piece of functionality overlooked in OpenSSH is the AuthorizedKeysCommand configuration keyword. This configuration allows you to specify a command that will run during login to retrieve a users public key file from a remote source and perform validation just as if the authorized_keys file was local.

Here is an example directory structure for a set of users with SSH public keys that can be shared out via a web server:

jeffbrl

# Adapted from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35869985/datetime-datetime-is-not-json-serializable

import datetime
import json

import boto3

def datetime_handler(x):
    if isinstance(x, datetime.datetime):
        return x.isoformat()

iann0036

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