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Simple Alternative to ssh-copy-id

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Simple Alternative to `ssh-copy-id`

Replace user with the name of the user you want to ssh as.

Replace the ip with the ip of the machine / host / vps you want to connect to.

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@ip "cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

If the directory .ssh is not yet created on the machine / host / vps, use this small variation:

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@ip "mkdir ~/.ssh; cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"