ssh-import-id

[Dustin Kirkland]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Alex Bligh <alex at alex.org.uk> wrote:
> --On 15 December 2010 12:01:22 -0600 Dustin Kirkland <kirkland at ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Seeing the ssh-copy-id utility in SSH's contrib/ directory, I'm
>> hopeful you might consider this ssh-import-id tool for the project.
>> Before we get into reviewing the code, can you tell me if this is
>> something that would, or would not be interesting to openssh upstream?
>
> We'd use this if it took a username too, for a similar purpose. Currently
> we pull keys out of xml and go through some convoluted perl to add them
> to the right authorized_keys file of the right users, set the permissions
> and ownerships right, etc., which is pretty fiddly, and not that safe when
> someone next changes the desired permissions on authorized_keys, or uses
> a different path specified by the config file, or whatever.

Hi Alex,

Right now, it works as the current user, on the current user's
~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.

I'd use sudo and su to run ssh-import-id as another user, to operate
on their authorized_keys file.

-- 
:-Dustin

Dustin Kirkland
Ubuntu Core Developer