[Bug 2196] New: ssh-copy-id: selects "wrong" pubkey
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Wed Jan 15 12:26:45 EST 2014
https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2196
Bug ID: 2196
Summary: ssh-copy-id: selects "wrong" pubkey
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Version: 6.4p1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P5
Component: ssh-copy-id
Assignee: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org
Reporter: felix.kaiser at fxkr.net
Hi,
I have many SSH keys named "id_rsa.NAME.pub" in addition to my
default SSH key named "id_rsa.pub".
Since OpenSSH 1.13 [1], ssh-copy-id uses "ls -t ${HOME}/.ssh/id*.pub"
to determine which key to copy by default.
I believe this "all keys, newest first" approach is very unlikely to
be what the user intended, especially since SSH itself always tries
"id_rsa.pub" by default.
I think it would be better to use
"${HOME}/.ssh/id_{rsa,dsa,ecdsa}.pub".
Also, ssh-copy-id should show the path to the pubkey that it copied,
maybe even the pubkey itself.
Cheers!
[1]
http://anoncvs.mindrot.org/index.cgi/openssh/contrib/ssh-copy-id?annotate=1.15
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