Handling Authorized Public and Private SSH keys

[justserdar]

This discussion is about SSH console access as the root user or any user using 'pubkey auth' only.

Current options/solution provided by IceWhale Team in ZimaOS

Solution 1:
mkdir /DATA/real_ssh/ cd /DATA/real_ssh/ echo "what you want" > .authorized_keys # TODO mount --bind /DATA/real_ssh/ ~/.ssh/ cat ~/.ssh/.authorized_keys # show pseudo keys
Notes: The above method is not currently persistent as mentioned in Discord (image below).

Solution 2:

To get persistent configuration changes: modify the /etc/ssh/sshd_config configuration and modify the AuthorizedKeysFile, for example, change the AuthorizedKeysFile to /DATA/.ssh/authorized_keys and set PubkeyAuthentication yes.
Image:

Settings:

Interesting resources:
https://www.zimaspace.com/docs/zimaos/Setup-Python#How-to-pull-GitHub-projects-without-password
^ Due to some problems, git **cannot find ssh public key normally**.
^^ Does this also affect us when trying to login as root inside Coolify to validate the server's ssh key?