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Bug#745478: ITP: distkeys -- Distkeys - upload SSH keys to servers and more



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>

* Package name    : distkeys
  Version         : 1.0
  Upstream Author : teamix GmbH, Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>
* URL             : https://github.com/teamix/distkeys
* License         : GPL-2
  Programming Lang: Ruby
  Description     : Distkeys - upload SSH keys to servers and more

Distkeys distributes a list of public SSH keys to a list of servers.
It reaches servers behind a firewall as well by using SSH port forwarding.

Furthermore it can execute a command or a script on a list of hosts or
copy a file to them.

We use this package to distribute our own public keys to our own and
customer machines. I plan to maintain upstream and Debian packaging.

In comparison with other solutions I see the following specifics:

- It is mainly targetted at distribution of SSH keys.
- It can access servers behind a firewall via port forwarding.
- It downloads authorized_keys, does all changes and uploads them in one
  go, and thus is quite fast.
- It tries to play it safe by backuping of authorized_keys intelligently.

We would like to share distkeys in the hope it is useful to others.

Current state of packaging is almost ready to review. TODO:
- Review adaptions to make it run with Ruby 1.9.
- Get it reviewed by a sponsor (see RFS bug below).

The packaging is using git-buildpackage with separate upstream and debian
packaging branches. It is already lintian clean, except for a debian/watch
file which I consider to be unnecessary in this case.


See also:

RFS: distkeys/1.0 -- distribute SSH keys
https://bugs.debian.org/712787

Which I will update in a moment with some actual information.

(Please excuse long signature, it is centrally managed.)

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