doc: How to Manage WebAuthn Keys: Browser, macOS, YubiKey, etc

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#4 opened on Sep 7, 2024 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Assessment

Difficulty: 2/5
Estimated time: 1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness: 42/100

Issue type: Documentation
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: macos, shell
Domain: authentication, documentation, security

Research direction

No target documentation file or test is named. Start by locating the project’s documentation area, then review the Chromium, macOS, and YubiKey sections and their linked downloads. Done means the key-management guidance is placed in the appropriate documentation location and the listed instructions and links are accurate.

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Description

Chromium

chrome://settings/passkeys
brave://settings/passkeys

macOS

Search "passkeys" in macOS Settings

YubiKey

YubiKey Manager GUI (deprecated): https://www.yubico.com/support/download/yubikey-manager/
To [install the pkg on macOS without allowing admin privileges](pkgutil --expand-full ~/Downloads/foo.pkg /tmp/foo/):
```
pkgutil --expand-full ~/Downloads/yubikey-manager-qt-1.2.5-mac.pkg /tmp/yubikey-gui/
mv "/tmp/yubikey-gui/com.yubico.ykman.pkg/Payload/YubiKey Manager.app" /Applications/
```
YubiCo Authenicator: https://www.yubico.com/products/yubico-authenticator/#h-download-yubico-authenticator
(haven't tried it yet, but might be able to do as much or more than the CLI)

YubiKey Manager CLI: https://developers.yubico.com/yubikey-manager/Releases/

pkgutil --expand-full ~/Downloads/yubikey-manager-5.5.0-mac.pkg /tmp/yubikey-cli
mv /tmp/yubikey-cli/ykman.pkg/Payload/usr/local/ ~/.local/opt/yubikey-v5.5.0
ln -s yubikey-v5.5.0 ~/.local/opt/yubikey
xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine ~/.local/opt/yubikey/
ln -s ../opt/yubikey/bin/ykman ~/.local/bin/

and then make sure ~/.local/bin is in your PATH, such as with https://webinstall.dev/pathman (or webi itself).

pathman add ~/.local/opt/yubikey/bin/

The GUI doesn't seem to do much of anything. The CLI has more options:

# this definitely shows fewer accounts that I know I have, but I didn't find them under the other options either
ykman fido credentials list --csv

credential_id,rp_id,user_name,user_display_name,user_id
6ccd32400f0fc8cecfbaeca6932a53612477b57629ad1d36a461ca6e01342dd93df0af0f8db9d224d0f801482f22660e,local.pocketid.app,aj@therootcompany.com,aj,302e3430313230383733343534383933363335

ykman fido credentials delete <full-id> [-f]

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