[NBLUG/talk] public key ssh troubles - update

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On my debian boxes there is a super easy way to copy a key.

ssh-copy-id

man ssh-copy-id :

NAME
       ssh-copy-id  -  install  your identity.pub in a remote machine's
autho-
       rized_keys

SYNOPSIS
       ssh-copy-id [-i [identity_file]] [user@]machine

DESCRIPTION
       ssh-copy-id is a script that uses ssh to  log  into  a  remote 
machine
       (presumably  using  a login password, so password authentication
should
       be enabled, unless you've done some clever use of multiple
identities)

       It also changes the permissions of the remote user's home,
~/.ssh,  and
       ~/.ssh/authorized_keys  to remove group writability (which would
other-
       wise prevent you from logging in, if the remote  sshd  has 
StrictModes
       set in its configuration).

       If  the  -i  option  is  given  then  the  identity  file 
(defaults to
       ~/.ssh/identity.pub) is used, regardless of whether there are
any  keys
       in your ssh-agent.  Otherwise, if this:

             ssh-add -L

       provides any output, it uses that in preference to the identity
file.

       If  the  -i  option is used, or the ssh-add produced no output,
then it
       uses the contents of the identity file.  Once it has one or 
more  fin-
       gerprints   (by   whatever  means)  it  uses  ssh  to  append 
them  to
       ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote machine (creating  the 
file,  and
       directory, if necessary)

SEE ALSO
       ssh(1), ssh-agent(1), sshd(8)

OpenSSH                        14 November 1999                
SSH-COPY-ID(1)

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 17:23, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 17:09, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> Let me refine my command:
> 
> > me at mybox$ ssh-keygen -t rsa
> >      <Hit enter and accept defaults>
> > me at mybox$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user at remotebox 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'
> >      <make sure that last one was one line>
-- 
error <error at sonic.net>
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