ssh-import-id

[Joachim Schipper]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 01:44:53PM -0500, Scott Moser wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Peter Stuge wrote:
> > Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> > > Joachim Schipper wrote:
> > > > why not use SSH? Install *one* server's key, and pull the users'
> > > > keys over that connection.
> > > It's a bootstrapping issue.  How do you get that "one" server's key
> > > there?
> > Same way you get the command in the boot script there.
> >
> > How do you do that by the way? I assume Ubuntu server .isos do not
> > come with ssh-import-id kirkland in them. ;)
> I think that its hard to argue that getting your ssh keys to a server is
> not easier by
>  - logging into a system at the console, and then typing:
>  - ssh-import-id smoser

So where did ssh-import-id come from?

> than
>  - logging into a system at the console, and then typing:
>  - plugging a USB key in, copying a .ssh key file off
>    ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and getting perms right ...
>    (I guess some more elite than me might be able to type theirs from
>     memory.)

Just add the key to the base .iso.

		Joachim