CentOS docs - Oct 2010 - update HOWTO page for how to copy ssh pub keys

here:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH

the recipe for how to copy your id_rsa.pub file to a remote system is
given as:

"Copy the public key (id_rsa.pub) to the server and install it to the
authorized_keys list:

$ cat id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

  i suspect it would be better if that were rewritten in terms of
using ssh-copy-id, just to be simpler and less error-prone.

rday

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On 07/10/10 12:29, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
>    here:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH
>
> the recipe for how to copy your id_rsa.pub file to a remote system is
> given as:
>
> "Copy the public key (id_rsa.pub) to the server and install it to the
> authorized_keys list:
>
> $ cat id_rsa.pub>>  ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"
>
>    i suspect it would be better if that were rewritten in terms of
> using ssh-copy-id, just to be simpler and less error-prone.
>
> rday
>
Thanks for volunteering :-)

Please submit your proposed changes to this list and we can make it happen.

On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>  here:
>
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH
>
> the recipe for how to copy your id_rsa.pub file to a remote system is
> given as:
>
> "Copy the public key (id_rsa.pub) to the server and install it to the
> authorized_keys list:
>
> $ cat id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"
>
>  i suspect it would be better if that were rewritten in terms of
> using ssh-copy-id, just to be simpler and less error-prone.
Remember that this was likely written for CentOS 4, which did not have 
that tool as part of openssh. So we might want to provide an option for 
both cases ?

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