openssh bugs - Nov 2009 - [Bug 1669] New: ssh-copy-id has options that could be added to MAN page

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1669

           Summary: ssh-copy-id has options that could be added to MAN
                    page
           Product: Portable OpenSSH
           Version: 5.3p1
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Documentation
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
        ReportedBy: tom at ritter.vg


After googling about using ssh-copy-id on a server running on a
nonstandard port, I learned that I could use

 $ ssh-copy-id '-p 1234 name at server' 

to pass the port option through to ssh.  This ability is not documented
on the man page, and I thought it was a normal use case and worth
putting in the documentation.

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https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1669

Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Darren Tucker <dtucker at zip.com.au> 2009-11-02
09:16:22 EST ---
I'm not sure if that's a feature or an accident of the implementation. 
The only reason it works is that $1 is not quoted in this line:

{ eval "$GET_ID" ; } | ssh $1 [...]

I would have expected the canonical way to do this would be to put a
port directive into your ~/.ssh/config, eg

Host server
  Port 1234

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