Linux Identity

Pillars

Field guides for SSH governance on Linux fleets.

Long-form articles for the platform and security engineers who have to make this work in production. Concrete config, named tools, honest tradeoffs.

  • Engineering leads at 5-15 person teams

    SSH key management for Series A startups

    The static-key sprawl that bites you between Seed and Series B, and the SSH CA pattern that fixes it without a CyberArk-sized budget.

    11 min read

  • Security engineers comparing PAM vendors

    JIT sudo without CyberArk

    Capability-token sudo, auditable by design, deployed in hours. What you give up vs CyberArk, and what you do not.

    10 min read

  • SRE / platform engineers running real fleets

    OpenSSH CA in production: a complete guide

    Cert validity windows, principals, KRL distribution, sshd_config snippets. The five week-one pitfalls and how to dodge each.

    13 min read

  • Compliance leads and first-time SOC 2 CTOs

    What SOC 2 actually requires for Linux access

    CC6.1, CC6.6, CC7.2 in plain English. The three artefacts an auditor will ask for, and where to find them.

    11 min read

  • Platform engineers running the migration

    Replacing static SSH keys: a 90-day plan

    Week-by-week rollout. Inventory, pilot, expansion, cutover. Rollback procedures at every phase so nobody loses an evening.

    12 min read