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What changed

Docs only. This records oracle's key-only SSH baseline, which was applied by hand on 2026-11-14:

• stacks/wiki/README.md: a new The host's SSH, once step that writes /etc/ssh/sshd_config.d/10-oracle-baseline.conf and checks it.
• docs/network.md: a sentence on oracle's row that points to that step.
• docs/changelog.md: dated 2026-11-14 entries.
• The keys: the same README step now lists the from= pin for each kind of key in authorized_keys: robo to 10.0.99.20, trinity's backup key to 10.0.99.40, operator keys to Hicks. These pins were applied on oracle at 06:44 UTC. restore-the-firewall.md §0 now adds the key without a password and with its pin.

Why

The audit of 2026-11-13 found oracle's sshd offering publickey,password. This is the host that holds every off-host copy, and nothing in the repo set its sshd. Closes #1500.

Blast radius

oracle's SSH only, and the change is already live there.

• The last password login was 2026-09-02. Every login since, including the backup pushes from 10.0.99.20 and 10.0.99.40, has used a key.

• If a key stops working, the laptop's console still works.

• No change to network segmentation or firewall rules

• No new port published to a VLAN that could not already reach the service

• No credential added outside secrets/*.sops.yaml

Verification

• The config: on oracle, sshd -t passed, then systemctl reload ssh. sshd -T shows all four settings set to no.

• The login: ssh -o PreferredAuthentications=none to localhost and to 10.0.99.30 prints Permission denied (publickey).

• The keys: ssh-keygen -lf still parses all five keys with their options. Before pinning, I checked 120 days of the journal: each key had logged in from one host or from Hicks only. No login had happened under the pins when this was written. The first real ones are the 2026-11-15 backup runs.

• The checks: scripts/check_docs.py printed docs OK, and ./scripts/lint.sh passed. make validate was not run, because the change is docs only.

• make validate passes

• Deployed to the lab and confirmed working

• Docs updated (docs/, service README, or docs/roadmap.md)

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🟡 Changes recommended

The backup-key enrollment instructions still require password-based ssh-copy-id after the baseline disables that authentication method, blocking off-host backup setup on rebuilt hosts.

1 open issue

• Replace password-based SSH key enrollment in backup runbook · New

What changed in this PR

This docs-only PR records oracle’s manually applied key-only SSH baseline so it can be restored after a rebuild.

Changes:

• Documents the SSH configuration drop-in and verification steps.
• Links the host’s network entry to the rebuild instructions.
• Records the deployment and remaining key restrictions in the changelog.

File	Description
stacks/​wiki/​README.md	Adds SSH hardening and verification instructions.
docs/​network.md	Records key-only SSH and links to the setup procedure.
docs/​changelog.md	Adds the dated baseline deployment record.

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