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Copy ssh keys to user@host to enable password-less ssh logins.

Terminal - Copy ssh keys to user@host to enable password-less ssh logins.
$ssh-copy-id user@host
2009-02-07 04:58:11
User: senthil
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Copy ssh keys to user@host to enable password-less ssh logins.

To generate the keys use the command ssh-keygen

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Terminal - Alternatives
ssh-copy-id username@hostname
2009-02-16 12:11:26
User: flart
Functions: ssh
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Copy your SSH public key on a remote machine for passwordless login - the easy way
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ssh-copy-id user@host
2009-08-07 16:36:19
User: matthewbauer
Functions: ssh
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Copy ssh keys to user@host to enable password-less ssh logins.

Same as original just no $ at start

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What others think

If you need change default port ssh, you can use:

ssh-copy-id 'user@host -p2233'

Comment by irraz 56 weeks and 5 days ago

I think this isn't normally found outside Ubuntu or Debian systems.

Comment by mlambie 56 weeks ago

Alternativly you can use ?cat ~/.ssh/*.pub | ssh user@remote-system 'umask 077; cat >>.ssh/authorized_keys'? on such systems.

Comment by DASKAjA 56 weeks ago

... without the question marks (?) of course.

Comment by DASKAjA 56 weeks ago

Beware : without arguments it copies your identity.pub file, which is by default a RSA1 pub key (obsolete), unless you have already executed ssh-agent, added your keys, so that ssh-add -L returns something.

Comment by jmcoursi 55 weeks and 4 days ago

Works on RedHat-like systems

Comment by jmcoursi 55 weeks and 4 days ago

Also works on Gentoo, it's contained in openssh package.

Comment by xupeng 54 weeks and 1 day ago

doesn't work across all unix OS. Or is there some installation needed?

Comment by rommelsharma 53 weeks and 3 days ago
cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh user@remotehost 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
Comment by juddmaltin 50 weeks and 6 days ago

ssh-copy-id is just a script. If you don't have it you can google it easily ehough. Using the above cat is easier though. OS X doesn't bundle ssh-copy-id so I always use the cat version.

Comment by qubyte 49 weeks and 6 days ago

This does not work on CentOS 5.3:

ssh-add -L

The agent has no identities.

So, this tip requires at least some readme on setting up said ssh-copy-id

Quick reading of man ssh-agent did not result in much enlightenment for me.

On the other hand the

cat ~/.ssh/*.pub | ssh user@remote-system 'umask 077; cat >>.ssh/authorized_keys'

is easy to understand and certainly works....

Comment by vleolml 43 weeks and 6 days ago

vleolml, ssh-copy-id does exist on both Ubuntu 8.x and CentOS 5.x.

Comment by bassu 37 weeks and 1 day ago

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