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[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 01 November 2004 11:06 pm, James McDonald wrote:
> >> 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"

SuSE 9.1   which  uses  openssh-3.8


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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         11/02/04 08:15  +
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