2020-06-21 Ubuntu-Debian

Add Someone Elses Public Key To Remote Server

How to Add Someone elses SSH public key to a remote server

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@hostname 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

or using ssh-copy-id:

ssh-copy-id -f -i <someones.pub> user@hostname

For AWS - where you are given an initial private key to ssh with:

ssh-copy-id -f "-o IdentityFile my-private-key.pem" ubuntu@10.10.10.12

Source

• How to Add Someone elses public SSH key to a remote server
• Why can’t I ssh-copy-id to an ec2 isntance