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by rlpb 4384 days ago
Something similar has been available on Launchpad for years. There's a tool called "ssh-import-id". If I want to give you access to an Ubuntu server, I might type "ssh-import-id kentwistle". This would fetch public keys that the kentwistle user on Launchpad has published over HTTPS and then add them to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.

I don't think there's any reason that ssh-import-id needs to be Launchpad-specific.