diff --git a/clanServices/admin/default.nix b/clanServices/admin/default.nix
index 0b9bb4bca..c7c6d16f0 100644
--- a/clanServices/admin/default.nix
+++ b/clanServices/admin/default.nix
@@ -9,15 +9,37 @@
     interface =
       { lib, ... }:
       {
-        options.allowedKeys = lib.mkOption {
-          default = { };
-          type = lib.types.attrsOf lib.types.str;
-          description = "The allowed public keys for ssh access to the admin user";
-          example = {
-            "key_1" = "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQD...";
+
+        options = {
+          allowedKeys = lib.mkOption {
+            default = { };
+            type = lib.types.attrsOf lib.types.str;
+            description = "The allowed public keys for ssh access to the admin user";
+            example = {
+              "key_1" = "ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQD...";
+            };
+          };
+
+          rsaHostKey.enable = lib.mkEnableOption "Generate RSA host key";
+
+          # TODO: allow per-server domains that we than collect in the inventory
+          #certicficateDomains = lib.mkOption {
+          #  type = lib.types.listOf lib.types.str;
+          #  default = [ ];
+          #  example = [ "git.mydomain.com" ];
+          #  description = "List of domains to include in the certificate. This option will not prepend the machine name in front of each domain.";
+          #};
+
+          certificateSearchDomains = lib.mkOption {
+            type = lib.types.listOf lib.types.str;
+            default = [ ];
+            example = [ "mydomain.com" ];
+            description = ''
+              List of domains to include in the certificate.
+              This option will prepend the machine name in front of each domain before adding it to the certificate.
+            '';
           };
         };
-
       };
 
     perInstance =
@@ -27,10 +49,15 @@
           { ... }:
           {
             imports = [
-              ../../clanModules/sshd
-              ../../clanModules/root-password
+              # We don't have a good way to specify dependencies between
+              # clanServices for now. When it get's implemtende, we should just
+              # use the ssh and users modules here.
+              ./ssh.nix
+              ./root-password.nix
             ];
 
+            _module.args = { inherit settings; };
+
             users.users.root.openssh.authorizedKeys.keys = builtins.attrValues settings.allowedKeys;
           };
       };
diff --git a/clanServices/admin/root-password.nix b/clanServices/admin/root-password.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3d7d6c09f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clanServices/admin/root-password.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+# We don't have a way of specifying dependencies between clanServices for now.
+# When it get's added this file should be removed and the users module used instead.
+{
+  config,
+  pkgs,
+  ...
+}:
+{
+
+  users.mutableUsers = false;
+  users.users.root.hashedPasswordFile =
+    config.clan.core.vars.generators.root-password.files.password-hash.path;
+
+  clan.core.vars.generators.root-password = {
+    files.password-hash.neededFor = "users";
+
+    files.password.deploy = false;
+
+    runtimeInputs = [
+      pkgs.coreutils
+      pkgs.mkpasswd
+      pkgs.xkcdpass
+    ];
+
+    prompts.password.type = "hidden";
+    prompts.password.persist = true;
+    prompts.password.description = "You can autogenerate a password, if you leave this prompt blank.";
+
+    script = ''
+      prompt_value="$(cat "$prompts"/password)"
+      if [[ -n "''${prompt_value-}" ]]; then
+        echo "$prompt_value" | tr -d "\n" > "$out"/password
+      else
+        xkcdpass --numwords 5 --delimiter - --count 1 | tr -d "\n" > "$out"/password
+      fi
+      mkpasswd -s -m sha-512 < "$out"/password | tr -d "\n" > "$out"/password-hash
+    '';
+  };
+}
diff --git a/clanServices/admin/ssh.nix b/clanServices/admin/ssh.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fef85f399
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clanServices/admin/ssh.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+{
+  config,
+  pkgs,
+  lib,
+  settings,
+  ...
+}:
+let
+  stringSet = list: builtins.attrNames (builtins.groupBy lib.id list);
+
+  domains = stringSet settings.certificateSearchDomains;
+
+in
+{
+
+  services.openssh = {
+    enable = true;
+    settings.PasswordAuthentication = false;
+
+    settings.HostCertificate = lib.mkIf (
+      settings.certificateSearchDomains != [ ]
+    ) config.clan.core.vars.generators.openssh-cert.files."ssh.id_ed25519-cert.pub".path;
+
+    hostKeys =
+      [
+        {
+          path = config.clan.core.vars.generators.openssh.files."ssh.id_ed25519".path;
+          type = "ed25519";
+        }
+      ]
+      ++ lib.optional settings.rsaHostKey.enable {
+        path = config.clan.core.vars.generators.openssh-rsa.files."ssh.id_rsa".path;
+        type = "rsa";
+      };
+  };
+
+  clan.core.vars.generators.openssh = {
+    files."ssh.id_ed25519" = { };
+    files."ssh.id_ed25519.pub".secret = false;
+    migrateFact = "openssh";
+    runtimeInputs = [
+      pkgs.coreutils
+      pkgs.openssh
+    ];
+    script = ''
+      ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N "" -C "" -f "$out"/ssh.id_ed25519
+    '';
+  };
+
+  programs.ssh.knownHosts.clan-sshd-self-ed25519 = {
+    hostNames = [
+      "localhost"
+      config.networking.hostName
+    ] ++ (lib.optional (config.networking.domain != null) config.networking.fqdn);
+    publicKey = config.clan.core.vars.generators.openssh.files."ssh.id_ed25519.pub".value;
+  };
+
+  clan.core.vars.generators.openssh-rsa = lib.mkIf settings.rsaHostKey.enable {
+    files."ssh.id_rsa" = { };
+    files."ssh.id_rsa.pub".secret = false;
+    runtimeInputs = [
+      pkgs.coreutils
+      pkgs.openssh
+    ];
+    script = ''
+      ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -N "" -C "" -f "$out"/ssh.id_rsa
+    '';
+  };
+
+  clan.core.vars.generators.openssh-cert = lib.mkIf (settings.certificateSearchDomains != [ ]) {
+    files."ssh.id_ed25519-cert.pub".secret = false;
+    dependencies = [
+      "openssh"
+      "openssh-ca"
+    ];
+    validation = {
+      name = config.clan.core.settings.machine.name;
+      domains = lib.genAttrs settings.certificateSearchDomains lib.id;
+    };
+    runtimeInputs = [
+      pkgs.openssh
+      pkgs.jq
+    ];
+    script = ''
+      ssh-keygen \
+        -s $in/openssh-ca/id_ed25519 \
+        -I ${config.clan.core.settings.machine.name} \
+        -h \
+        -n ${lib.concatMapStringsSep "," (d: "${config.clan.core.settings.machine.name}.${d}") domains} \
+        $in/openssh/ssh.id_ed25519.pub
+      mv $in/openssh/ssh.id_ed25519-cert.pub "$out"/ssh.id_ed25519-cert.pub
+    '';
+  };
+
+  clan.core.vars.generators.openssh-ca = lib.mkIf (settings.certificateSearchDomains != [ ]) {
+    share = true;
+    files.id_ed25519.deploy = false;
+    files."id_ed25519.pub" = {
+      deploy = false;
+      secret = false;
+    };
+    runtimeInputs = [
+      pkgs.openssh
+    ];
+    script = ''
+      ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -N "" -C "" -f "$out"/id_ed25519
+    '';
+  };
+
+  programs.ssh.knownHosts.ssh-ca = lib.mkIf (settings.certificateSearchDomains != [ ]) {
+    certAuthority = true;
+    extraHostNames = builtins.map (domain: "*.${domain}") settings.certificateSearchDomains;
+    publicKey = config.clan.core.vars.generators.openssh-ca.files."id_ed25519.pub".value;
+  };
+}