Re: RFS: distkeys/1.0 -- distribute SSH keys
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> > On 19. 6. 2013, at 23:06, Shawn <shawnlandden@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >
> > On Jun 19, 2013 7:00 AM, "Martin Steigerwald" <ms@teamix.de> wrote:
> > > Package: sponsorship-requests
> > > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "distkeys":
> > >
> > > Currently it only works with Ruby 1.8 (which is mentioned in README).
> >
> > we are current ly removing ruby 1.8 (and packaging ruby 2.0) so unless this
> > can be ported to ruby 1.9 it should not be uploaded to debian.
> And how is this different from other systems like puppet or ansible? Is is
> different or better?
distkeys is just for distributing SSH keys, the other functions are just there for convenience or cause they were easy to implement. I only know puppet rudimentarily and do not know ansible. Possible differences are:
- easy to understand and use (no need to understand puppet concepts like manifests just for SSH key distribution)
- no requirements on systems to which distkeys distributes keys (no need to install any client, running SSH server and access to the user to which to distribute keys to is enough)
- can access machines behind firewalls by port forwarding
- creates backups of old authorized_keys file once a day
distkeys does not replace a full blown configuration management, as the name says its main usage is just maintaining SSH keys on a list of machines.
Thanks,
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