Oneliner to add a public key to a remote servers authorized-keys

Revision: 22926

at January 26, 2010 03:13 by berkes

Initial Code

ssh user@host 'mkdir ~/.ssh; echo '`cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub`' >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys'

Initial URL

http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/2335

Initial Description

Instead of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub, you can choose any location on your local machine where your *public* key lives.
You may need to adjust the file permissions on remote authorized_keys aftwterwards, depending on the configuration of the remote ssh server.

Initial Title

Oneliner to add a public key to a remote servers authorized-keys

Initial Tags

ssh

Initial Language

Bash

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