After we create ssh keys pair with
'ssh-keygen' command, the next step is to copy the public key to remote server
and append in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.
Traditional method
$ scp ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
username@my.server.org:
Login to remote server
$ mkdir .ssh --mode 700
$ cat ~/id_dsa.pub >>
~/.ssh/authorized_keys
$ chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys
Fast and simple Method using
ssh-copy-id
ssh-copy-id is a script that uses
ssh to log into a remote machine and append the indicated identity file to that
machine's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file creating the file, and directory, if
necessary.
$ssh-copy-id username@my-server.org
If your public key filename is
anything other than id_rsa.pub you will get error stating
"/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: ERROR: No identities found". In this case you
must provide the location and filename of the public key
$ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
username@my-server.org
If remote server is listening on
non-defaut port for ssh then,
$ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
-p 5555 username@my-server.org
