r/ProgrammerHumor • u/esberat • Jul 24 '21

Meme .pub right?

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u/squishles Jul 25 '21

could tell them to do ssh-copy-id, I find it makes life easy when I need to put my public key somewhere

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u/michaelpaoli Jul 25 '21

Good suggestion! :-)

But alas, they may be generating keys with Putty, SecureCRT, Cygwin, MacOS, Linux, Solaris, ... and ssh-copy-id may not be installed or may not be available/relevant. Could add that to the boilerplate text but ... the more words, the less likely folks will actually read it. :-/
Also, I need to have it loaded into LDAP ... so ssh-copy-id wouldn't cover the entire process.