On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > here: > > > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH > > > > the recipe for how to copy your id_rsa.pub file to a remote system is > > given as: > > > > "Copy the public key (id_rsa.pub) to the server and install it to the > > authorized_keys list: > > > > $ cat id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys" > > > > i suspect it would be better if that were rewritten in terms of > > using ssh-copy-id, just to be simpler and less error-prone. > > Remember that this was likely written for CentOS 4, which did not > have that tool as part of openssh. So we might want to provide an > option for both cases ? ah, good point. i suspect the most effective rewrite would be 3 parts: * a general description of what is being done, files involved, what's copied, proper file/dir permissions for it to work properly, etc. * the manual way it's done on centos 4 * the newer, simpler centos 5 way involving ssh-copy-id and that would do it. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================