A while ago I did a write up on SSH keys, anyways I was looking into it a little more today and came across this handy little script that makes it… well simple. I didn’t write it myself, I found it over here. Go ahead and give it a try it works like a charm.
#!/bin/bash
# say: ./pussh.sh hostname
# Uploads your id_rsa.pub to the specified host, wrapped for readability
if [ ! -r ${HOME}/.ssh/id_rsa.pub ]; then
ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa
fi
# Append to the copy on the remote server
cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh ${USER}@ "cat - >> .ssh/authorized_keys"
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "Success"
fi