Hi Maybe not the group to ask this but sure it's usefull for this group I like to sync al our servers with rsync -aze ssh I like to give al the servers my ssh key to the .ssh/authorezed_keys file How can I do this automatic and not to use scp -p id_dsa.pub user@ip:/home/.ssh cat id_dsa.pub >> /home/user/.ssh/autorized_keys and when a new server comes do it again. is there a solution to remote >> (add) directly to a file Thanks Sjaak