yesterday, i was demoing how to use ssh-copy-id on centos 5.5 to
copy one's public key to another machine and account so you don't need
to type the password anymore. i used "ssh-keygen" to create the
standard RSA-format files, then checked the man page for ssh-copy-id,
which reads:
ssh-copy-id [-i [identity_file]] [user@]machine
...
If the -i option is given then the identity file
(defaults to ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) is used
the above seems to suggest that, as long as i'm happy copying over the
default id_rsa.pub file, all i need type is:
$ ssh-copy-id -i barney@xxxxxxxxxxxx
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: ERROR: No identities found
$
clearly, that doesn't work. but if i simply add in the name of the
file, it's fine:
$ ssh-copy-id -i .ssh/id_rsa.pub barney@xxxxxxxxxxxx
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
any reason for that? the man page clearly states that that file is
the default, but it's obvious i still need to type its name. am i
missing something? is the man page wrong?
rday
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