What is the best alternative to SSH Universal Key Manager?

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Userify

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Installs instantly

The shim (their agent) installs in the blink of an eye. The old server took a lot longer (about five minutes) but only needs one command to install, so you can walk away and come back. (The new server installs in about five seconds as well.) See More

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Only up to 20 servers are free (10 on self-hosted)

Only up to 20 servers are free. See More

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Built-in recipes for Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Bash, and CloudFormation

Lots of built-in recipes make deploying pretty fast, and just adding a single server is pasting a one-liner that takes a few milliseconds to install. See More

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The Userify shim doesn't yet support certain containers

Containers that don't run an SSH server don't support the Userify shim (of course, container hosts are fully supported). See More

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Manages sudo permissions (root/user/none)

It manages sudo permissions (root/user/none) in a nice color-coded interface based on projects. You can manage more than one server in groups. See More

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Pricey for small companies

A smaller company may find it expensive if you have a lot of servers. See More

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When you remove a user, their keys are removed and sessions are KILLED

This is a pretty awesome feature. When you remove a user, not only are their keys removed, but any active sessions are terminated and home directory renamed to deleted:$username so that you can go check it out and get any work files left in it (or hacking evidence). Even better, if you later restore their access, their home directory automatically gets restored as well. See More

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User interface is slow and clunky

It's not user friendly and some people may struggle to get going with setting up their profiles. See More

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Very reliable across multi-cloud and intermittent connections

A single self-hosted installation or Userify Cloud can manage your user accounts in multiple clouds or your own datacenter. All that's needed is HTTPS outbound from your managed instances. See More

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Color coded dashboard

Instantly shows who has access to what server groups in color (red for root/sudo access, green for regular user, and white/none for no access.) See More

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If central servers go down, you can still log in

Even if the userify servers go down, you can still log in with your private key. See More

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Available in self-hosted and Cloud, in single-server and clustered modes

Cloud is available for free up to 20 servers, while self-hosted is limited to five servers free. See More

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Can handle tens of thousands of servers in a cluster configuration

Handles thousands of servers hassle-free using an AWS EC2 cluster. See More

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Compartmentalization/isolation

Users are isolated in what they can see. If a user doesn't have access to a server group, project, or company, they can't see any of its parts -- not even the project or server group names or who has access. See More

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Extremely fast to get started

Tip: click the word "None" to change user permissions. See More

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Built-in key scanner

Scans for unused keys (what Userify calls "loose" keys) and presents them on a per-server basis within each server groups. No additional configuration is needed, it just works out of the box. See More

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Free for up to 20 servers

It's completely free (no credit card needed) and can be used up to 20 servers, and this free tier does NOT expire. See More

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Excellent and fast support

Support is fast and responsive, but more importantly, actually knows the product. See More

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Pricing is based on per-server instead of per-user

This is great so you don't have to pay per key or per user, and it's easy to control your budget. See More

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Let's Encrypt integration

Self-hosted Userify integrates with Let's Encrypt, providing instant SSL. See More

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Key generator

Generates private keys, including both Mac/OSX/Linux RSA keys as well as Putty keys, and can even distribute those keys to end boxes (useful for automation accounts). See More

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Price:Free up to 20 servers (non-expiring)

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SSH KeyBox

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Can audit sessions

Keybox can audit sessions on a historical basis, compared to Userify which requires that you use other tools (like auditd and greylog2) to do that. See More

Top Con

Keybox doesn't use real SSH, so things like remote automation and scp/sftp aren't possible

You may be able to manage those out of band, however, but they're not possible directly in the browser from your OpenSSH client. See More

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Free and open source

SSH KeyBox is free and open source. The source code is hosted on GitHub and it's released under the Apache 2.0 License. See More

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Runs through the browser

KeyBox is browser-based and is accessed through a web browser. This adds some insecurity and potential attack vectors to the platform. See More

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Acts as a bastion host

The ssh KeyBox server is its own bastion host. See More

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