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One-liner to add public key to authorized keys

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh user@host "cat  >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

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One Response to “One-liner to add public key to authorized keys”

  1. Justin Akehurst Says:
    November 29th, 2006 at 9:57 pm

    A better one liner:
    $ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh user@host “cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys && chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys”

    This will make sure that if the authorized_keys file did not exist, it will have the right permissions to allow login using it.

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