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[James McDonald]

>> and then copying the resulting public key to the target box, again as 
>> root
>>
>>     scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub target_server:.ssh/authorized_keys2
>>
>
> Another method of doing this:
>
> ssh-copy-id  -i  .ssh/id_rsa.pub   <user>@<hostname>
>
> The above is good for more than one host.  I think your method would 
> overwrite
> the authorized_keys2 file if you did it from more than one server.... 
> thus
> losing the key for the first server.

I couldn't find ssh-copy-id on my Redhat FCx boxes... what distro you 
running?

I suppose the better thing would be to do a

cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh servername "cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys2"