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> the SSH certificates issued by the Cloudflare CA include a field called ValidPrinciples

Having implemented similar systems before, I was interested to read this post. Then I see this. Now I have to find out if that really is the field, if this was ChatGPT spellcheck, or something else entirely.

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For the others: The correct naming is "principals".

Sigh. I'll get that fixed and figure out how that happened.

This was corrected to:

> ... SSH certificates issued by the Cloudflare CA include a field called valid_principals

which indicates it wasn't just the spelling of `principals`.

It depends... ssh-keygen -L displays the fields as Principals (which are set using the -n parameter) and internally a lot of the OpenSSH code talks about AuthorizedPrincipals...

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