improved ssh-copy-id

[Eitan Adler]

On 15 November 2012 06:39, Philip Hands <phil at hands.com> wrote:
> Damien Miller <djm at mindrot.org> writes:
> ...
>> I'd rather you coordinate with Phil Hands via
>> https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1980
>>
>> My plan is to update our copy of ssh-copy-id to his git sometime soon. If
>> you have changes to make, then it's best to discuss them in the bug.
>
> Hi Damien,
>
> That's good to hear :-)
>
> Eitan,
>
> You'll note that my version (http://git.hands.com/ssh-copy-id) already
> includes the -p option.  The -o option seems reasonable, although I'd
> quite like to know what you use it for, as I personally would always put
> the options into my .ssh/config because I'm not into typing long command
> lines.

I usually use it to either disable the ControlMaster temporarily or to
reduce the strictness of some of the tests (StrictHostKeyChecking).
It isn't critical for ssh-copy-id.

In any case I think your version had more features so there isn't any
reason to use this version.   I had just written before becoming aware
of the origin of s-c-i.



-- 
Eitan Adler