Copy SSH Key to a Server
Install an SSH public key on a remote server by hand when ssh-copy-id is unavailable.
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ssh-copy-id is the easy way to install a public key on a remote host, but it is not always available. This snippet does the same thing by hand: create ~/.ssh, tighten its permissions and append the key to authorized_keys. The commands are below.
SSH.com explains how to copy a SSH key to a remote server with ssh-copy-id. This explains how to do that manually with a command line.
copy-ssh-key.sh
bash
mkdir -p ~/.ssh
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
vim ~/.ssh/authorized_keys # paste your SSH key ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pubSomething wrong or want to discuss this article?
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