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How To Use Monkeysphere to Validate SSH Servers and Clients

How To Use Monkeysphere to Validate SSH Servers and Clients

Introduction

SSH is an excellent way of securely connecting to remote hosts. However, there are some issues with easily validating the identity of the server you are attempting to connect to. Additionally, it can be hard to keep track of which users are authorized to use a busy infrastructure, especially with changing keys. Monkeysphere is a project meant to address these issues by leveraging GPG keys and the web of trust model. Using this system, we can safely make SSH connections.

Tutorials in series

Tutorial

How To Validate SSH Server Identities with Monkeysphere on an Ubuntu VPS

  • March 24, 2014
  • 16 min read

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Tutorial

How to Authenticate Users to a SSH Server Using Monkeysphere on an Ubuntu VPS

  • March 24, 2014
  • 8 min read

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