** Changed in: openssh (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Colin Watson (cjwatson) => (unassigned)
** Description changed:
ssh-copy-id is a great script for adding my public key to a remote
server.
I have a script in my ~/bin called ssh-import-id that does something
similar. It retrieves a key from a remote public keyserver and appends
- it to .ssh/authorized_keys.
+ it to my local .ssh/authorized_keys.
By default, it uses Launchpad.net. But the URL environment variable
could be mangled accordingly.
This script is incredibly useful for EC2 and UEC virtual machines, when
I want to give someone else access to a VM. I can trivially run:
ssh-import-id cjwatson
It also supports more than one ID as arguments. So you could just as
easily do:
ssh-import-id cjwatson kirkland kees
Ideally, this script would find a home in Ubuntu's openssh-server
package. If this isn't appropriate, we could find a home in cloud-init
or cloud-utils, though I suspect that many non-UEC Ubuntu users might
find it useful too.
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ssh-import-id - retrieve a key from a public keyserver and add to the
authorized_keys file
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/524226
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