On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Maxim Veksler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > On 17/02/2008, Erez D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > #copy to destenation > > > scp .ssh/id_dsa.pub <target_machin>:/<path to > home>/.ssh/authorized_keys2 > > > #(actually you should append to destenation instead of copying to it) > > > > 2. At least on Debian Etch and CentOS 5, there is "ssh-copy-id" to help > you transfer the public key conveniently. > > Who needs it? > > cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh <target_machin> 'cat >> /<path to > home>/.ssh/authorized_keys2' I think you just gave the answer, after doing this all the time for all the servers and keys you manage (I install public keys of co-workers to let them on the servers), you see the value of being able to just type "ssh-copy-id -i identify-file.pub [EMAIL PROTECTED]" --Amos
