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Ssh copy id

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Goal ​

Login to a remote server using a SSH key.

Usage ​

The requirement is that you already generated ~/.ssh/id_rsa key.

Run this from your local machine:

shell
ssh-copy-id user@servername

Manual installation ​

Copy the contents of ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub from your local machine, and append to the last line of the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of the remote server.

For Windows machines, see this note.