I think you're doing it wrong. Having a _shared_ account, with sudo privileges and a common password doesn't look smart. Also, you're forcing devs to copy the

I think you're doing it wrong. Having a _shared_ account, with sudo privileges and a common password doesn't look smart. Also, you're forcing devs to copy their public keys around. I think you underestimate the benefits brought in by a centralized system, like LDAP, which would also allow you to manage the permissions with some more granularity