possible error in ssh-copy-id man page

[Josef Assad]

On 10/23/2012 04:40 PM, Josef Assad wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 01:27 PM, Sebastiano Di Paola wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> 
> Ah I see what you mean. Hm. It only made sense to me when I read the
> source though. If it's useful, here's an alternative wording:
> 
> 
> 
> If the -i option is given and the identity_file parameter is provided,
> then ssh-copy-id will look in this file for the identities.
> 
> If the -i option is given and the identity_file parameter is omitted,
> then ssh-copy-id will look in the default ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
> 
> If the -i option is omitted then ssh-copy-id will use the output of the
> command ssh-agent -L to obtain the identities. If ssh-add produces no
> output, then ssh-copy-id will fall back again to the default
> ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

Bah, I meant ssh-add where I wrote ssh-agent.