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June 20, 2013 15:16
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Copy your ssh public key to a server from a machine that doesn't have ssh-copy-id
If you use Mac OS X or some other *nix variant that doesn't come with ssh-copy-id, this one-liner will allow you to add your public key to a remote machine so you can subsequently ssh to that machine without a password.
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| cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@machine "mkdir ~/.ssh; cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys" |
So that is a good one.. this is what I do..
#!/bin/bash
# /usr/local/sbin/copykeys symlinked from ~/
# USAGE: copykeys [email protected]
echo "Copying local SSH Key to $1..."
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh $1 "cat - >> .ssh/authorized_keys"
echo "Your Public SSH Key was copied to $1."
exit
Shawn, what do you think of that? I try to make all of my Bash and Ruby cli scripts somewhat interactive.
I like that one much better
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might have to remove the mkdir as most servers already have a .ssh directory