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Manage Many Keys with SSH Config and KeePass

I’ll be the first to admit my security has room for improvement. Until last year, I was reusing passwords intermixed with a terribly simple mnemonic. Until a few months ago, my phone and computer were totally unencrypted. I’ve been fighting the change because it’s scary. I’m also very lazy and have been dreading the extra work involved with good security. I’ve put off updating SSH credentials for about two years now for that exact reason.

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KeePass + ssh

I’ve been using KeePass Professional Edition for a few months now, and I’m always discovering new things to do with it. For example, I’ve got HQ photos of my driver’s license so that I can go to the gym without carrying my full wallet (if that’s illegal I totally don’t do that). I’ve got a couple of shared databases that sync off my main personal database that I can share with family and friends, which means I change update my accounts without the old hassle of texting everyone the new credentials.

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KeePass + FreeRDP

One of my primary work responsibilities is to handle the Linux environments not related to our ecommerce platform (although, as one of few devs, one of my primary responsibilities is basically everything). We’re a big fan of the RHEL pipeline, so I use CentOS as my work environment. It bites occasionally, but, by and large, we don’t run bleeding-edge stacks because they’re, well, unsupported bleeding-edge stacks. I can find most of the software I need with older versions of Fedora or by just manually building things.