SSH: Testing whether ID is already in authorized_keys

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 07:08:46PM -0400, Michael R Head wrote:
> You could do something like this:
> 
> ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub user at host.com
> ssh user at hostname  "cat .ssh/authorized_keys |sort |uniq > .ssh/authorized_keys.uniq; mv .ssh/authorized_keys.uniq .ssh/authorized_keys"

Yeah, I thought of that just after posting. It still seems
like a bit of a hack, doesn't it? But maybe it's less of a
hack than any of the other possibilities.

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