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ta1243 on May 9, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Starlink User Terminal Teardown

SSH Certificates is a far better approach even if that many users needed direct access. It's not 1990 any more.

sneak on May 9, 2025 [–]

Certificates are great, but not strictly necessary until you need to distribute thousands of keys. maintaining an authorized_keys text file is much simpler than running a CA.

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