update-ssh-keys

⚠ This crate is deprecated and unmaintained ⚠

update-ssh-keys is no longer maintained; the recommended replacement is ssh-key-dir.

update-ssh-keys implements authorized_keys.d by providing a program and library to merge keys from authorized_keys.d/* into authorized_keys so sshd can find them. This manual process can cause confusion if the directory gets out of sync with the authorized_keys file.

ssh-key-dir solves this problem by providing a helper program that sshd can run at authentication time to read authorized_keys.d files directly. In this model, authorized_keys is simply an additional source of keys, and no longer needs to be kept in sync.

About update-ssh-keys

update-ssh-keys is a command line tool and a library for managing openssh authorized public keys. It keeps track of sets of keys with names, allows for adding additional keys, as well as deleting and disabling them. For usage information, see update-ssh-keys -h or run cargo doc to read the documentation on the library api.

The update-ssh-keys command line tool is included in Container Linux, so there should be no reason to install it. If you would like to use this on a non-Container Linux machine, you can build the project with cargo build --release. The rust toolchain is required to build it. You can install rustup to manage your rust toolchain - https://www.rustup.rs.

test/test_update_ssh_keys.py is a python script which tests the functionality of the update-ssh-keys command line tool. If changes are made to update-ssh-keys, that script should be run.