sekey vs pam_reattach

sekey

Use Touch ID / Secure Enclave for SSH Authentication! (by sekey)

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pam_reattach

Reattach to the user's GUI session on macOS during authentication (for Touch ID support in tmux) (by fabianishere)

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sekey		pam_reattach
	Project
4	Mentions	1
2,429	Stars	568
0.4%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
Rust	Language	C
MIT License	License	MIT License

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sekey

Posts with mentions or reviews of sekey. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-26.

Use TouchID to Authenticate Sudo on macOS
11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2022
Apple/Google/Microsoft to accelerate rollout of passwordless sign‑in standard
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2022

> relaying auth requests to your phone for approval and storing secrets in the Secure Enclave
Like https://github.com/kryptco/kr [key stored in a [...] mobile app]?
Also, newer Macs have a Secure Enclave (supports 256-bit secp256r1 ECC keys):
https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive [storing and managing SSH keys in the Secure Enclave [...] or a Smart Card (such as a YubiKey)]
https://github.com/sekey/sekey [Use Touch ID / Secure Enclave for SSH Authentication!]
Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2021
How often should I rotate my SSH keys?
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Feb 2021

Similar to the recommendations to use a YubiKey/hardware token, SeKey on a Mac lets you use a key generated in the Secure Enclave in an unexportable form (https://github.com/sekey/sekey)

pam_reattach

Posts with mentions or reviews of pam_reattach. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-01.

Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Mar 2021

If you run things under tmux, you'll also need this: https://github.com/fabianishere/pam_reattach

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sekey and pam_reattach you can also consider the following projects:

secretive - Store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave

Fedora-KDE-Yubikey-U2F-2FA-Logins-Guide - Guide to setup a Yubikey for Fedora KDE as 2FA using U2F for the SDDM login screen, lock screen, sudo and su.

WSL-Hello-sudo - Let's sudo by face recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It runs on both WSL 1 and WSL 2. This is a PAM module for Linux on WSL.

sudo-touchid - A fork of `sudo` with Touch ID support.

pam-watchid - PAM plugin module that allows the Apple Watch to be used for authentication

openssh-sk-winhello - A helper for OpenSSH to interact with FIDO2 and U2F security keys through native Windows Hello API

please - Really tiny sudo replacement

webauthn - Web Authentication: An API for accessing Public Key Credentials

pam-onelogin - pam-onelogin is a pretty complete pam/nss stack for using OneLogin as authentication source (with MFA) and user/group lookups. Primarily used for SSH.