ssh-copy-id

[Tom H]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 1:38 AM, thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:


> The key you need to transfer to the host is the public one. If you can
> log in to a computer over SSH using a password, you can transfer your RSA
> key by doing the following from your own computer:
>
> ssh-copy-id <username>@<host>
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSH/OpenSSH/Keys
>
> the "host" refers to the remote? local would be, for example, a laptop.

Yes. You're copying the public key to the host into which you want to
ssh using a key.


> I thought I read to copy the private key...?

Definitely not.