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burnedfaceless
Asked: 2018-10-30 06:22:03 +0800 CST

Copying a SSH public key on a VPS with a SSH connection [duplicate]

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I am trying to copy my public key on a VPS.

After I connect I run the following

xclip -sel clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Xclip gives me a can't open display error.

Right now I manually open the file and copy the key. There has to be a better, faster way to do this.

vps xclip

1 Answers

  1. I guess the best way copy pub key to remote host is use ssh-copy-id:

    ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/mykey user@host
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