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Lachy's avatar
Lachy
Occasional Contributor
4 years ago

ssh-copy-id functionality

Without the private key files in ~/.ssh/ , it's less convenient to use ssh-copy-id to put public keys onto servers. It would be useful if 1Password provided an easy solution for this, perhaps UI b...
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Former Member's avatar
Former Member
3 years ago

Unfortunately there's not a way to specify a key except by filename with ssh-copy-id. Since the keys in 1Password are ID'd by name in the comment section, you can list the public keys with ssh-add -L, grep one by ID, and copy that:


ssh user@host "echo $(ssh-add -L | grep "$KEY_ID\$") >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

where $KEY_ID is the name of the SSH key in 1Password.