Those of us who use secure shell (SSH) for logging in to remote machines, already know about key authentication, which is so much easier and sometimes more secure than password authentication.\u00a0 We also know that in order to make it work you need to:<\/p>\n
And that’s just what we have been doing.\u00a0 Or at least me.\u00a0 Today, after approximately 10 years of using secure shell, I’ve learned that there is a ssh-copy-id<\/em><\/strong> command, which will automatically add your current public key to a remote machine’s authorized_keys<\/em> file and arrange for correct permissions.\u00a0\u00a0 Wow!<\/p>\n Thanks to @commandlinefu<\/a> and top 10 one-liners blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n Those of us who use secure shell (SSH) for logging in to remote machines, already know about key authentication, which is so much easier and sometimes more secure than password authentication.\u00a0 We also know that in order to make it work you need to: generate a pair of keys with ssh-keygen command copy public key … Continue reading Copy SSH key to remote machine<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,133,62],"tags":[1960,200,74],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-12267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-sysadmin","category-technology","tag-command-line","tag-security","tag-tips"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t