Export Your Public SSH Key
Adding a public SSH key to a Unix, Linux or other OpenSSH server is a bit of a tedious task; Copy the key, open a shell session, use your favorite text editor to paste the key in place. Unless you have a farm or a servers, it probably nothing more then a slight damper on your otherwise awesome day.
I wrote a simple script to make adding public RSA keys just a tad bit easier.
#!/bin/sh # written by: Herman Griffin # herman@hermangriffin.com if [ ! $1 ]; then echo "USAGE:" echo " $0 USER@HOST"; echo " USER = SSH username"; echo " HOST = SSH server to export your public key to" else key_file=$(echo ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub); auth_file=".ssh/authorized_keys"; key=$(cat $key_file); ssh $1 "touch $auth_file; chmod 644 $auth_file; echo $key >> $auth_file; tail -n1 $auth_file"; fi
Download it here.
