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I am a huge fan of Wireguard and use on all the major production servers I currently manage. But user management is exactly as sophisticated as SSH key managem
by atonse 8y ago
I am a huge fan of Wireguard and use on all the major production servers I currently manage.
But user management is exactly as sophisticated as SSH key management. That is to say, easy for 2-3 people, a pain otherwise.
There are attempts at creating UI based user managers for wireguard, and I hope those go somewhere.
I bet the major wireguard-supporting VPN providers have solved this problem for themselves though.
Update: Just wanted to add that I don't think that user management (the work of actually provisioning and managing users) should fall under the umbrella of Wireguard. It's perfect the way it is. But I suspect there will be an ecosystem of tools that come up around it.
- AceJohnny2 8y agoThanks, this is exactly the kind of useful information I was looking for. (this wouldn't be an issue for my personal use, but it's useful to be aware of it)
- jandrese 8y agoIt's not an issue for like 95% of the users, which is why Wireguard went that way. For the people who really need something better they are left to figure it out for themselves. Normally this is OK, but sometimes it leads to situations like PGP Email where key distribution is never really solved and the whole thing kind of lumbers around in a half dead state forever.