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Re: SSH resources, specifically on certificates (certificate authentication)



On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 12:32:35PM -0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2022-07-14, Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> >
> > If you've got a very large organization, you may want to support
> > the infrastructure to generate new SSH certs for people daily,
> > with expiration dates of 24 hours. Then you need to make sure
> > that mechanism is working perfectly and has appropriate
> > redundancy, so that you don't accidentally lock out the whole
> > organization tomorrow.
> 
> The question I ask myself preliminarily, before delving further into
> the matter, is whether certificate-based SSH authentication is
> appropriate for a home LAN with three users.

Definitely not.

OTOH -- would you like those managing your thousand-plus hosts and
tens of thousands of IDs to learn "on the living organism"?

Cheers
-- 
t

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