Connect using SSH certificates

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With ¹ resolved the documentation must be complemented with instructions how to connect using SSH certificates instead of SSH keys.

OpenSSH however also allows the use of SSH certificates to authenticate a server or a client, with the benefit of not requiring the prior storing of the key: an authority generates certificates that include the signature of the corresponding key, and the key used for the authentication of the server or client is trusted if the signature matches.

• https://docs.cyberduck.io/protocols/sftp/#private-key-files
• https://docs.cyberduck.io/protocols/sftp/#connecting
• https://docs.cyberduck.io/cyberduck/bookmarks/#bookmark-options

Footnotes

1. Support OpenSSH with certificate user authentication cyberduck#15183 ↩

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Other resources

• https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSSH/Cookbook/Certificate-based_Authentication#SSH_User_Certificates
• http://www.ixany.org/articles/presentation-and-use-of-ssh-certificates/#takeaway
• https://goteleport.com/blog/how-to-ssh-properly/