file access error handling

[LimeHat]

from the discord https://discord.com/channels/860500297297821756/860500297297821759/971911693443686483 as reported by SleepyNetworker

I'm running into an error when running containerlab. I think it's happening because Clab does not have access to my home folder and it's failing because it cannot access my ~.ssh/ folder.
Is there a way to configure Clab to not check for keys?
Here's the error output:

➜  ansible-arista-deploy git:(clab) ✗ sudo clab deploy -t clab_topologies/clab-lan-topology.yaml
INFO[0000] Containerlab v0.26.0 started
INFO[0000] Parsing & checking topology file: clab-lan-topology.yaml
INFO[0000] Creating lab directory: /local/mnt/workspace/ansible-arista-deploy/clab-aristalan
panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x18 pc=0x83151c]

goroutine 1 [running]:
github.com/srl-labs/containerlab/utils.FileExists({0xc0008837a0, 0x10})
    github.com/srl-labs/containerlab/utils/file.go:30 +0x5c
github.com/srl-labs/containerlab/clab.(*CLab).CreateAuthzKeysFile(0xc000351ef0)
    github.com/srl-labs/containerlab/clab/authz_keys.go:38 +0xd7
github.com/srl-labs/containerlab/cmd.deployFn(0x3df4420, {0x24ef0ea, 0x2, 0x2})
    github.com/srl-labs/containerlab/cmd/deploy.go:152 +0x5b6
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).execute(0x3df4420, {0xc000061b00, 0x2, 0x2})
    github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.4.0/command.go:856 +0x60e
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).ExecuteC(0x3df2b20)
    github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.4.0/command.go:974 +0x3bc
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).Execute(...)
    github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.4.0/command.go:902
github.com/srl-labs/containerlab/cmd.Execute()
    github.com/srl-labs/containerlab/cmd/root.go:44 +0x25
main.main()
    github.com/srl-labs/containerlab/main.go:10 +0x17