SSH Key Management

The cluster discusses best practices for managing SSH keys, including configurations in .ssh/config, use of hardware keys, agent forwarding risks, and criticisms of centralized SSH key services or tools.

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fartfeatures Dec 27, 2025 View on HN

Hardly, you can use .ssh/config to configure an SSH key just for this service.

gregorygraf Sep 25, 2016 View on HN

i can recommend this link:Upgrade your SSH keys! https://blog.g3rt.nl/upgrade-your-ssh-keys.html?_utm_source=...

arpa Jan 17, 2020 View on HN

ssh -A is a thing. A risky thing, but so much better than keeping private keys on server.

bastardoperator Dec 17, 2025 View on HN

No thank you. Use ~/.ssh/config with per-repo Host aliases and IdentityFile directives.

msanlop Nov 7, 2024 View on HN

It's too bad this doesn't use .ssh/config

avtar Jan 6, 2018 View on HN

Getting access to SSH private keys might be an issue.

mrdrozdov Apr 30, 2015 View on HN

Does this handle management of SSH keys?

Claudiusseibt May 10, 2025 View on HN

this is really cool but i would like to register more than one ssh key because i'm using hardware keys and if i physically loose the one key i wont be able to get in

mooism2 Jul 18, 2011 View on HN

Why use a shell script instead of adding to ~/.ssh/config?

antihero Jul 12, 2012 View on HN

All of your SSH keys in one place? SPOF much?