See who can log in. Revoke in one click.
Every authorized key on your Linux server, in a table you can actually read - with least-privilege roles you create yourself. No vim authorized_keys, no agent, no bastion.
How it works
Step 01 - You
See.
Open the SSH Management tab. Every key in the server’s authorized_keys becomes a row: who it belongs to, whether it is Ed25519 or RSA, and which system user it can log in as.
Step 02 - You
Scope.
Create a system user with exactly the rights you want - read/write, or read-only - then target a key at it. Nobody gets root just because root was easier.
Step 03 - You
Revoke.
Click the trash icon, confirm, done. The key is gone from authorized_keys and that person cannot log in again. No SSH session, no vim, no second-guessing.
You can't govern what you can't read.
Access to your server lives in one file: ~/.ssh/authorized_keys. Six lines of base64 that look identical to each other. Nothing in it tells you who someone is, what they can do, or whether they still work here.
The stale root key was always there. You just couldn't see it.
Go on, take the keys.
This is the real Registry Governance table running on demo data. Filter it by system user, reveal a key, spin up a read-only role, hand it a key, and revoke the contractor who never gave his laptop back.
Not everyone needs root.
Most teams hand out root because setting up anything else means useradd, visudo, chmod and a prayer. CtrlOps makes the safe option the easy one - pick a level, name the user, done.
The one or two people who genuinely need full admin.
Your engineers. Everything except sudo.
A teammate who ships but should never rm -rf anything.
Contractors, auditors, the junior on day one.
A key is authorized against one system user, so the level you pick is the access the key holder gets. Give the auditor read-only, give the contractor read/write, and keep root for the people who genuinely need it.
More than a prettier text file.
Paste ten keys at once, spot the person still on legacy crypto, reuse a key on the next server, and never authorize the same key twice.
Onboard a whole team
Paste every new hire's public key into one box, one per line. CtrlOps counts them back at you and authorizes the lot against the system user you picked.
Find the weak crypto
Every key wears its algorithm as a badge - green for Ed25519, blue for RSA. The counters at the top tell you, in one number, how much of your fleet is still on the old stuff.
Reuse it next door
One click copies the full public key, so authorizing the same person on the next server is a paste, not a scavenger hunt.
No accidental doubles
Paste a key that is already in the file and CtrlOps says so, instead of quietly giving one person two rows to revoke later.
When a key won't take
Wrong permissions on ~/.ssh is the usual culprit. Ask the AI Terminal in plain English - it writes the fix and waits for your approval.
Access control, off the to-do list.
What people say once who-can-log-in stops being a question only one person on the team can answer.
HR person commenting on a server tool, I know. But whenever someone leaves the team, we need their server access gone immediately. Before this it was a whole back and forth with tech. Now I check SSH management myself and flag it in 2 minutes. Offboarding got so much easier, honestly.
100% local and credentials never leave your machine positioning is doing a lot of trust work here and it's the right call.
the fact that i dont need to install any agent on my servers sold me immediately. got it running on our staging env and already caught 2 issues before they became outages. will be moving prod over soon
SSH into 10 servers, debug a crash, and deploy a fix - all without leaving one app? CtrlOps is a local-first desktop DevOps tool that translates plain English into bash, manages fleets, and keeps your credentials 100% on-device.
finally something that replaces my mess of ssh tabs and random bash scripts. the playbook feature is underrated, set up my common fixes once and now its just one click. great launch guys..
The AI Terminal with an Approval Gate: being able to ask for a fix in plain English is great, but the fact that it shows you the command and asks for approval before running it on live infrastructure is a massive safety net.
No bastion. No lock-in.
Other tools answer 'who can log in?' by putting themselves between you and your server. CtrlOps answers it by writing the file your server already reads - and then getting out of the way.
It's just authorized_keys
CtrlOps writes the same standard OpenSSH file your server already reads. No proprietary format, no sidecar database, no lock-in. Uninstall CtrlOps tomorrow and every key you added still works.
Nothing sits in the connection path
We are not a bastion or a proxy. Your SSH goes straight from your machine to your server. If CtrlOps is down - or you cancel - nobody is renting you access to your own boxes.
What it needs, and what it will not do
It needs root or passwordless sudo, because writing authorized_keys does. And revoking blocks new logins - a session already open stays open until it ends. We would rather say so than surprise you.
More you can do with CtrlOps.
Access Management
Scan your fleet to see who can log in where and who has sudo. Offboard from every server at once.
Real-Time Infra Monitoring
Live CPU, memory, disk, and network for every server, streamed as it happens.
Single-Click Deployment
No scripts, no CI/CD setup. Fill one form and it goes live with PM2, Nginx, and SSL handled for you.
Questions before you hand out a key.
Find out who can log in to prod.
Every authorized key on every server, in one readable table - with least-privilege roles and one-click revoke. 1-month free trial, no credit card.
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