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I’m glad Userify works well for you. For my purposes, whipping up a couple of cronjobs involving curl and OpenSSH is more appropriate than relying on an externa
by cubesnooper 4y ago
I’m glad Userify works well for you. For my purposes, whipping up a couple of cronjobs involving curl and OpenSSH is more appropriate than relying on an external cloud service.
> But I've been burned before when a central auth server was down and I couldn't log into my servers
There is no central auth server involved here. My servers check login credentials against the CA’s public key, which is installed alongside my sshd config file. I make my certificates valid for three weeks, but regenerate them every two, so if some failure happens with creating or fetching certificates I have a week to notice and fix the problem.
- gunapologist99 4y agoFair point. that's basically what userify is, I think![0] (just really a UI on top of a script!) You can run your own server for management, and that's what we do. 0. https://github.com/userify/shim/blob/master/shim.py https://github.com/userify/shim/blob/master/shim.py