ssh host v client regarding keys

[C de-Avillez]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 05:13 +0000, thufir wrote:

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> Now copy the PUBLIC part of cuser's key (that's the file with the .pub
> extension) from ~cuser/.ssh into ~huser/.ssh on the host.
>
> In ~huser/.ssh on the host, append the newly copied public key
> to .ssh/authorized_keys.

The copying can be done with 'ssh-copy-id' [1]; this script will put
the public key in the correct place (if not already there).

Cheers,

..C..

[1] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/utopic/en/man1/ssh-copy-id.1.html