cdelorme

I tend to break and rebuild my systems regularly.  It has gotten to the point that I generally do not have an SSH key for over a year.

This has created a serious dilemma when it comes to maintaining access to remote systems.  I usually disable normal password access on any servers I maintain, which means unless I have multiple systems that can access so I can replace the keys I could permanently loose access to those systems.  In considering possible solutions I came up with one that has saved my bacon regularly.

First, I use my [dot-files](https://github.com/cdelorme/dot-files) repository after installing any new system.  If that system is secure I will generate a new SSH key and load it into github via curl through their api.

On servers which I need to retain access, I create a simple bash script to poll my github accounts keys.  I throw it into a user-local `~/.bin/update-keys` file, and make it executable.

Finally, I modify the crontab to execute this script regularly: