keychain
keychain ssh-agent front-end (by funtoo)
envoy
A ssh/gpg-agent wrapper leveraging cgroups and systemd/socket activation (by vodik)
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| keychain | envoy | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 727 | 215 | |
| 1.4% | - | |
| 0.0 | 10.0 | |
| about 2 years ago | about 8 years ago | |
| Shell | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
keychain
Posts with mentions or reviews of keychain.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-23.
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Am I the only one who's nervous when SSH-agent forwarding?
(*) https://github.com/funtoo/keychain. Not updated since 2018 but does the trick very well.
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The struggle with SSH key management under Linux
Jon Cairns wrote a similar article about this problem and presented a solution: A script that tries to find and reuse existing ssh-agents. There are multiple scripts with similar approaches all written in bash: ssh_find_agent, zsh-ssh-agent, and the most popular one: keychain. (And later I also discovered envoy). But being bash scripts, they are hard to read, not really fast, and make debugging a hell. I had used keychain successfully until I encountered a problem that I wasn't able to understand. Also, those tools depend heavily on ssh-agent and ssh-add instead of using the socket directly.
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Help Managing many linux servers
For ssh keys, that's what ssh-agent and keychain are for.
envoy
Posts with mentions or reviews of envoy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-10.
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The struggle with SSH key management under Linux
Jon Cairns wrote a similar article about this problem and presented a solution: A script that tries to find and reuse existing ssh-agents. There are multiple scripts with similar approaches all written in bash: ssh_find_agent, zsh-ssh-agent, and the most popular one: keychain. (And later I also discovered envoy). But being bash scripts, they are hard to read, not really fast, and make debugging a hell. I had used keychain successfully until I encountered a problem that I wasn't able to understand. Also, those tools depend heavily on ssh-agent and ssh-add instead of using the socket directly.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing keychain and envoy you can also consider the following projects:
zsh-ssh-agent - Ssh-agent management for zsh
ssh-find-agent - Tool to find already running ssh-agent compatible agents
mtail - extract internal monitoring data from application logs for collection in a timeseries database
dotfiles
yubikey-agent - yubikey-agent is a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys.
loki - Like Prometheus, but for logs.