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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 15:28:02 -0600
From: dweimer <dweimer@dweimer.net>
To: Mark Felder <feld@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: ssh-copy-id
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On 02/28/2014 2:20 pm, Mark Felder wrote:
> I modified it like this:
> 
>                         echo "alg $alg"
>                         echo "key $key"
>                         echo "comment $comment"
>                         printf "$alg $key $comment\n" >> "$keyfile" ; \
> 
> 
> so I could see where printf was breaking. It's breaking on the first 
> one
> -- $alg
> 
> Unmatched '.
> key: Undefined variable.
> comment: Undefined variable.
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ok, now I feel kinda stupid....  um it was breaking because of the 
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- at the beginning of ~/.ssh/id_rsa... 
then i thought, wait I am suppose to send my public key, not the private 
one.

it works right if you use ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

sorry Mark, didn't mean to waste your time looking at this...

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