SSH-COPY-ID

SSH-COPY-ID

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSO

NAME

ssh-copy-id - install your identity.pub in a remote machine's authorized_keys

SYNOPSIS

ssh-copy-id [-i [[identity_file?] [user@?machine

DESCRIPTION

ssh-copy-id is a script that uses ssh to log into a remote machine (presumably using a login password, so password authentication should be enabled, unless you've done some clever use of multiple identities)

It also changes the permissions of the remote user's home, /.ssh, and /.ssh/authorized_keys to remove group writability (which would otherwise prevent you from logging in, if the remote sshd has !StrictModes? set in its configuration).

If the -i option is given then the identity file (defaults to /.ssh/identity.pub) is used, regardless of whether there are any keys in your ssh-agent. Otherwise, if this:

ssh-add -L

provides any output, it uses that in preference to the identity file.

If the -i option is used, or the ssh-add produced no output, then it uses the contents of the identity file. 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)

SEE ALSO

ssh(1), __ssh-agent__(1)?, sshd(8)