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contrib/ssh-copy-id patch (get rid of identity.pub)
- From: Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, openssh-unix-dev at mindrot dot org
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 14:04:41 +0100
- Subject: contrib/ssh-copy-id patch (get rid of identity.pub)
Please consider this simple ssh-copy-id patch,
and adding contrib/ssh-copy-id as install target for cygwin. (man and
shellscript)
20041113
- [contrib\ssh-copy-id]: change default to newest .ssh/id*.pub
From: Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/
--- openssh-3.9p1-2/contrib/ssh-copy-id.orig 2004-01-04 22:16:34.001000000 +0100
+++ openssh-3.9p1-2/contrib/ssh-copy-id 2004-11-13 13:53:04.167750000 +0100
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
#!/bin/sh
-# Shell script to install your identity.pub on a remote machine
+# Shell script to install your newest identity.pub onto a remote machine.
# Takes the remote machine name as an argument.
# Obviously, the remote machine must accept password authentication,
# or one of the other keys in your ssh-agent, for this to work.
+# TODO: check if already in?
-ID_FILE="${HOME}/.ssh/identity.pub"
+#ID_FILE="${HOME}/.ssh/identity.pub"
+ID_FILE="$(ls -t ${HOME}/.ssh/id*.pub | head -n1)"
if [ "-i" = "$1" ]; then
shift
@@ -41,9 +43,11 @@
{ eval "$GET_ID" ; } | ssh $1 "umask 077; test -d .ssh || mkdir .ssh ; cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys" || exit 1
cat <<EOF
-Now try logging into the machine, with "ssh '$1'", and check in:
+Appended ${ID_FILE} to $1:.ssh/authorized_keys
- .ssh/authorized_keys
+Now try logging into the machine, with "ssh '$1'", and check:
+
+ ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
to make sure we haven't added extra keys that you weren't expecting.
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