Tools for SSH key management

Time-saving shortcuts for a commonly used open source tool.

$ ssh-keygen

This will create a key-pair (a public and private key) in ~/.ssh/. Keep the private key (id_rsa) on the PC and never share it. You can share the public key (id_rsa.pub) with others or place it on other servers.

$ ssh-copy-id pi@192.168.1.20

You can use this to give yourself (or others) access to a computer or server by importing their keys from GitHub.

$ ssh-import-id gh:bennuttall

Give someone else access to a server without asking them for their keys:

$ ssh-import-id gh:waveform80

Storm helps you add SSH connections to your SSH config, so you don’t have to remember them all. You can install it with pip:

$ sudo pip3 install stormssh

Then you can add an SSH connection to your config with the following command:

$ storm add pi3 pi@192.168.1.20

You can list, search, and edit saved connections easily using Storm’s documentation. All Storm actually does is manage items in your ssh config file at ~/.ssh/config.

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