yubikey-agent VS Samba

Compare yubikey-agent vs Samba and see what are their differences.

yubikey-agent

yubikey-agent is a seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys. (by FiloSottile)

Samba

https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba is the Official GitLab mirror of https://git.samba.org/samba.git -- Merge requests should be made on GitLab (not on GitHub) (by samba-team)
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yubikey-agent Samba
15 32
2,551 859
- 2.4%
0.0 10.0
4 months ago 1 day ago
Go C
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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yubikey-agent

Posts with mentions or reviews of yubikey-agent. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-29.
  • Show HN: SSH-tpm-agent – SSH agent for TPMs
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2023
    This is a great idea. I now exclusively use SSH keys on hardware security modules of some kind. I use "Secretive", a mac app that does the same, plus a yubikey using yubikey-agent (https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent; there are too many complicated ways to use SSH keys with a yubikey this is one of the friendliest ones). Depending on the security and frequency of which I access the service impacts whether I need presence confirmation or use secretive versus the yubikey.

    I would be remiss to mention there are existing SSH TPM projects, not sure how this one differentiates. It seems to at least have the user experience pretty simple, similar to yubikey-agent (and secretive), and unlike some of the existing solutions which have quite a few extra steps:

  • Secretive: Store SSH Keys in the Secure Enclave
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Mar 2023
    Also check out https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent which simplifies the setup quite a bit.
  • Am I the only one who's nervous when SSH-agent forwarding?
    2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 23 Sep 2022
    I have the same concern. I modified Pageant (Windows agent) so that it prompts me before signing anything which helps ease my mind, I only approve when I know I'm connecting to a new server. There are also options like requiring a Yubikey too (https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent)
  • Failed to fetch key with ECDSA keys via libykcs11.dll
    2 projects | /r/yubikey | 23 Jun 2022
    Aging MBP, Intel based, Monterey 12.3.1 uname -v Darwin Kernel Version 21.4.0: Fri Mar 18 00:45:05 PDT 2022; root:xnu-8020.101.4~15/RELEASE_X86_64 brew info yubikey-agent yubikey-agent: stable 0.1.5 (bottled), HEAD Seamless ssh-agent for YubiKeys and other PIV tokens https://filippo.io/yubikey-agent /usr/local/Cellar/yubikey-agent/0.1.5 (7 files, 4.8MB) * ...
    2 projects | /r/yubikey | 23 Jun 2022
    for ssh-keygen -D /path/libykcs11.2.3.0.dylib I get a bunch of "unknown certificate key type"/"failed to fetch key" messsages and info about a ssh-rsa Public key for PIV Attestation, no mentioning of my ECC key. Use a different SSH agent. For a test I recommend you try https://filippo.io/yubikey-agent on a Mac (install it from homebrew), it works perfectly for me. Just remember it reads the key only from slot 9a and none other (unless you change source and recompile).
  • How to Store an SSH Key on a Yubikey
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2022
    Unless I've missed something, SSH keys stored on Yubikeys are still hampered because you aren't allowed to a touch policy of "touch never".

    Imagine needing to touch the Yubikey with each "git pull" or using Ansible to operate over SSH on a dozen servers in parallel, and needing to touch the Yubikey once for each server.

    The feature request I'm tracking is here: https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent/issues/95

    The proposed feature would allow setting a touch policy for the SSH key.

    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2022
  • FreeBSD SSH Hardening
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Sep 2021
  • Yubikey PIV encrypted messaging system
    4 projects | /r/crypto | 27 Aug 2021
    If you can do ssh, you can sign messages: https://github.com/FiloSottile/yubikey-agent
  • Question: unplugging security key during SSH session
    2 projects | /r/yubikey | 24 Aug 2021
    use yubikey-agent

Samba

Posts with mentions or reviews of Samba. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-19.
  • Show HN: Git, from scratch, in Python, Spelled out
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Dec 2023
  • Go SMB Server?
    10 projects | /r/golang | 2 Apr 2023
    You could try to use samba via cgo.
  • The most common ways for two Linux laptops to share files?
    3 projects | /r/linux4noobs | 28 Dec 2022
  • Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2022 edition
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2022
    > First, the article doesn't say that "Linux is not ready for the desktop" - or concern itself with this as an abstract question.

    Well, it does, but in a sarcastic manner:

    "Yeah, let's consider Linux an OS ready for the desktop :-)."

    > Also, I find the "GNU/Linux is already ready for the desktop; I and others use it" argument tired. I've used GNU/Linux for the desktop in 1998, but it sure as hell wasn't ready then.

    Conversely, that it doesn't work for certain people does not mean that "it is not ready", which the post does state (sarcastically) as I pointed out above.

    > Many use cases aside...

    I'm not sure how the browsing, docs and email is miserable, maybe you can expand on that. The video editing is indeed a bit limited from my experience too. However, I don't think "limited proprietary options" is a problem. The community largely and specifically avoids proprietary software. Proprietary incursions into the community are generally seen as a negative thing. And for the lack of codecs, software patents for the most part are to blame.

    And then it just comes to my original statement; many things stated in the article are non-issues to most Linux users or just falsehoods:

    - Neither Mozilla Firefox nor Google Chrome use video decoding and output acceleration in Linux.

    Firefox does.

    - NVIDIA Optimus technology is a pain

    NVIDIA is a pain.

    - You don't play games, do you?

    I do.

    - Linux still has very few native AAA games.

    So "it's not ready" because it doesn't have AAA games? What a pitty.

    - To be fair you can now run thousands of Windows games through DirectX to Vulkan/OpenGL translation (Wine, Proton, Steam for Linux) but this incurs translation costs and decreases performance sometimes significantly.

    No, not 'significantly' for dxvk.

    - Also, anti-cheat protection usually doesn't work in Linux.

    For good reason. Blame the dev, and don't make it work on Linux.

    - Microsoft Office is not available for Linux

    Thankfull.

    - LibreOffice often has major troubles properly opening, rendering or saving documents created in Microsoft Office.

    And whose fault is this? Use ODT.

    - Several crucial Windows applications are not available under Linux.

    Thankfully. Also, 'crucial' is subjective.

    - In 2022 there's still no alternative to Windows Network File Sharing.

    It's available since 1992: https://www.samba.org/

    - Linux doesn't have a reliably working hassle-free fast native (directly mountable via the kernel; FUSE doesn't cut it) MTP implementation.

    I can transfer files to my phone just fine.

    - Too many things in Linux require manual configuration using text files.

    No.

    etc.

  • Lifelong PC guy about to buy M1 mini. Some questions
    3 projects | /r/macmini | 15 Apr 2022
    brew info samba samba: stable 4.16.0 (bottled) SMB/CIFS file, print, and login server for UNIX https://www.samba.org/ Not installed From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/samba.rb License: GPL-3.0-or-later ==> Dependencies Build: [email protected] ✔ Required: gnutls ✘, krb5 ✔ ==> Caveats To avoid conflicting with macOS system binaries, some files were installed with non-standard name: - smbd: /usr/local/sbin/samba-dot-org-smbd - profiles: /usr/local/bin/samba-dot-org-profiles ==> Analytics install: 1,477 (30 days), 3,287 (90 days), 6,917 (365 days) install-on-request: 1,459 (30 days), 3,246 (90 days), 6,863 (365 days) build-error: 5 (30 days)
  • WinAPI-Fun: A collection of (relatively) harmless pranks using the Windows API
    6 projects | /r/programming | 18 Feb 2022
    The best thing about net send is, it's entirely unauthenticated -- or at least it was, back in the day. It says "User X on Machine Y" sent this message, and Windows will indeed make sure to tell the other machine who sent the message. But if someone were to reverse-engineer the Windows filesharing and related protocols and turn these into a nice suite of open source tools, nothing would force those tools to tell the truth about which user or machine was net-sending.
  • Any Free or opensource AD, or Endpoint management tools?
    4 projects | /r/sysadmin | 27 Dec 2021
    You need to deploy AD. Even Samba can do it.
  • GitHub Actions Hackathon'21 - Samba Compiler
    3 projects | dev.to | 6 Dec 2021
    Samba Official
  • How I set up a RaspberryPi to share my files and media
    4 projects | dev.to | 24 Nov 2021
    I wanted a solution that was relatively easy to access on a local network and elsewhere. Preferably the same solution used the same way in both cases. This requirement ruled out Samba shares, as it's not designed for sharing across the internet. I looked at NFS, but encountered speed and reliability issues, and recent macOS support is poor with documented workaround to enable version 4 seemingly not working anymore.
  • Is there any anylisis of Clean Code applied to real projects in C/C++?
    2 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 24 Oct 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing yubikey-agent and Samba you can also consider the following projects:

Nextcloud - ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization

minio - The Object Store for AI Data Infrastructure

FreeIPA - Mirror of FreeIPA, an integrated security information management solution

ownCloud - :cloud: ownCloud web server core (Files, DAV, etc.)

Seafile - High performance file syncing and sharing, with also Markdown WYSIWYG editing, Wiki, file label and other knowledge management features.

OpenID - OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect Relying Party implementation for Apache HTTP Server 2.x

aws-vault - A vault for securely storing and accessing AWS credentials in development environments

wsl-ssh-agent - Helper to interface with Windows ssh-agent.exe service from Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

LDAP Account Manager (LAM) - LDAP Account Manager

authelia - The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps

SparkleShare - Share and collaborate by syncing with any Git repository instantly. Linux, macOS, and Windows.