Bash script to export ssh public key to a remote server
#!/bin/bash ## USAGE: add_to_server.sh remote_server ## This script will add your ssh dsa public key to remote_server's authorized_keys list, ## assuming that everything is in it's default location set -v # verbose output username="USERNAME" # CHANGE ME!!!! remote_server=$1 # assigns the first commandline argument to $remote_server ## Pipe the public key to ssh, then remotely touch the file to make sure it will be there, and concat to the end of it. ## Might work without the touch? cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh ${username}@${remote_server} "touch ~/.ssh/authorized_keys && cat - >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys" exit 0