Matt Johnson

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Easily Transfer Public Key to Another Machine

Posted Wed Nov 09 @ 08:37:00 PM PDT 2011

If you want to enable key based authentication to a (*nix) computer, instead of:

• copying your public key
• logging into the other machine
• pasting it into the "authorized_hosts" file

You can just use the ssh-copy-id command.

For example, if I want to move my public key over to machine1.example.com, I can just do this:

You will be prompted to login and your public key will be transferred to the host. After that, you can just login with your key.

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