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Anyone using Syncthing to sync SSH config/keys and (eg) bash/shell profiles between machines? I’ve gone through various attempts at keeping things in sync acro

• moviuro 5y ago
  Sounds like a job for SSH certificates. See e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20955465 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20955465 ; https://goteleport.com/blog/ssh-certificates https://goteleport.com/blog/ssh-certificates ; and the usual man pages
  • remram 5y ago
    Are certificates supported by any cloud provider or Git hosting platform? They usually only let you add public keys to your account.
    • pritambaral 5y ago
      > by any cloud provider I don't care much for cloud providers adding unnecessary restrictions, so I manage my own sshd_config on VMs. I'd like to rent a flat, not a hotel room, thank you very much. > Git hosting platform It appears GitLab, one of my platforms of choice, does support this in self-hosted setups[1]. Even if they didn't, it'd be trivial to extend their sshd_config by myself anyway. 1: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/operations/ssh_certificates.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/operations/ssh_cer...
      • remram 5y ago
        It is true that you are free to change the config on a VM manually. I included it because it's the only other service I could think of where you might set up SSH authentication. This is interesting about GitLab, thanks for the pointer. As you mentioned it only appears to be configurable instance-wide, there is no way for a user or organization to set it up for themselves (for example for your gitlab.com organization). That makes it a bad replacement for SyncThing'd private keys as moviuro suggested.