What is ssh-copy-id doing? ssh-copy-id is appending the contents of the public part of the key to the remote file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys . You could also copy ...
I have a public key in a server(host) that I want to transfer to another server(target). The host server has a bunch of keys in .ssh/ folder, i want to copy ...
OpenSSH comes with a command to do this, ssh-copy-id. You just give it the remote address and it adds your public key to the authorized_keys file on the remote ...