publickeymanager 0.2.1

Description

This program can be used to manage the public keys on multiple servers. Specify in a configuration file which users with their public keys have permission to login to which server with a specific username.

Publickeymanager is usefull if you have multiple users logging in to shared accounts on multiple servers.

Config File

The config file has the following options:

[keys]
  Specify one public key per user.

[group:`user`]
  Use this if you want to bundle multiple users to one group. Say for example
  a sysadmin group.

[group:`name`]
  Specify a group of servers. `name` is the name of the group.
  A config file can hold multiple [group:`name`]
  directives.

user_groups
  A reference to groups defined in [group:`user`].
  All users in the group have
  access to the servers in this group.

access
  Which individual users have access to servers in this group.

servers
  A list of servers which belong to this group.

[server:`name`]
  Specify a server. A config file can hold multiple [server:`name`]
  directives.
  The name is the name of the server. A name can be referenced in a server
  group.

hostname
  The hostname of the server.

user
  The username that is used to login to the server.

groups
  Define which groups have access to this server. Groups need to exist in
  [group:`name`]

access
  Define which users have access to this server.
  Users need have a key file mentioned in [keys].

Example Config File

An example config file which shows all options:

[keys]
roland=rvanlaar.pub
example_user=example.pub
example_user2=example2.pub

[group:user]
sysadmin =
  roland

[group:remote]
user_groups =
  sysadmin
access =
  example_user1
servers =
  example_server1
  example_server2

[server:localhost]
hostname = 127.0.0.1
user = roland
groups = sysadmin
access = example

[server:example_server1]
hostname = example.com
user = example

[server:example_server2]
hostname = example.org
user = example

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