Van Dyke's Public Key Assistant

[Damien Miller]

Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> I'd been thinking for some time we need something better than my present 
> fuglier-than-thou solution, something along the lines of:
> 
> cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh user at host "cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2"
> 
> There are just so many things that can go wrong -- replacing > for >>, 
> some sites need it to be authorized_keys, etc.  If there's a mildly 
> standardized subsystem, I can't imagine what'd be bad about adding 
> support for it to OpenSSH.  We could even somewhat safely support an 
> escape command to automatically add "this identity" to the local 
> authorized key, inside a separate channel (ssh2 only).  We can do this 
> now with the above hack, but...not as elegantly as any of us might like.

We have contrib/ssh-copy-id{,.1} that proports to do this automagically.
I won't attest to the quality of it, because I don't use it.

-d