possible error in ssh-copy-id man page

Sebastiano Di Paola sebastiano.dipaola at gmail.com
Tue Oct 23 22:27:27 EST 2012


It seems to me to be correct.
The last line just clarify that if "-i° is used then keys eventually
present in ssh-agent are not used, but the content of identity file is
used instead.
Kind regards.
Sebastiano

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Josef Assad <josef at josefassad.com> wrote:
> The man page for ssh-copy-id says:
>
> If the
> .B -i
> option is given then the identity file (defaults to
> .BR ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub )
>
> Than a few lines later it says:
>
> If the
> .B -i
> option is used, or the
> .B ssh-add
> produced no output, then it uses the contents of the identity
> file.
>
> Shouldn't the former line say "If the -i option is _not_ given?
>
>
>
> Josef Assad
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