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		gpderetta on March 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We need better support for SSH host certificates Having to interact with the browser every time I need to ssh to a machine would be extremely painful. If key forwarding works, that might be workable. I'm extremely wary of non-standard ssh login processes as they tend to break basic scripting and tooling.

michaelt on March 27, 2023 [–]

These tools usually cache your identity, so you might only need to go through a browser once a day.

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