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 ? -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]