On Feb 1, 2008 1:01 PM, Porkchop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 01/02/08 07:19 -0500, John Mort wrote:
> > That looks straightforward enough, one question though. When you scp
> > id_dsa.pub to porkchop.net:.ssh/authorized_keys, are you not
> > overwriting .ssh/authorized_keys? The account I log into on this box
> > is an untrusted user account that he also uses, so I want to make sure
> > I don't mess up anything he has set up there.
>
> It would overwrite anything that was there. In my case, there was
> nothing there.
> If you want to add the new key, do something like:
>
> (on local machine)
> scp id_dsa.pub porkchop.net:freedom.key
> (on server)
> cat freedom.key >> .ssh/authorized_keys
> -porkchop
another alternative is the ssh-copy-id command
ssh-copy-id - install your identity.pub in a remote machine's
authorized_keys
SYNOPSIS
ssh-copy-id [-i [identity_file]] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
According to the man page:
"Once it has one or more fingerprints (by whatever means) it uses
ssh to append them to
~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote machine (creating the file,
and
directory, if necessary)"
Todd
>
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