ssh-copy-id

[dweimer]

On 02/28/2014 1:34 pm, dweimer wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck getting the ssh-copy-id script that is
> included with FreeBSD 10 working?
> 
> When using it with the -i option to pass the identity key, I get a
> printf error message.
> 
> ssh-copy-id -i /home/dweimer/.ssh/id_rsa dweimer at webmail.dweimer.net
> Password for dweimer at webmail.dweimer.local:
> printf: Illegal option --
> 
> 
> Both of these systems are FreeBSD 10 systems, I took a look at
> /usr/src/usr.bin/ssh-copy-id/ssh-copy-id.sh, and am wondering if the
> -- in the mkdir line below is the culprit, or if maybe something else
> isn't escaped properly.

Well it wasn't that --, I removed it on my system, same result.

> sendkey() {
>         local h="$1"
>         local k="$2"
>         printf "%s\n" "$k" | ssh $port -S none $options "$user$h"
> /bin/sh -c \'' \
>                 set -e; \
>                 umask 077; \
>                 keyfile=$HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys ; \
>                 mkdir -p -- "$HOME/.ssh/" ; \
>                 while read alg key comment ; do \
>                         [ -n "$key" ] || continue; \
>                         if ! grep -sqwF "$key" "$keyfile"; then \
>                                 printf "$alg $key $comment\n" >> 
> "$keyfile" ; \
>                         fi ; \
>                 done \
>         '\'
> }



-- 
Thanks,
    Dean E. Weimer
    http://www.dweimer.net/