SSH: Testing whether ID is already in authorized_keys

[Michael R Head]

On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 21:37 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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.

Well, I would say it's more unixish than hackish. and ssh-copy-id is
already a bit of a hack (it's just a shell script).

> 
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Michael R Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
GPG: http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/gpg.key.txt (ID 23A02B1F)
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