[Gllug] Passwordless SSH

[James McGuigan]

Nix wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, James McGuigan spake:
> 
>>cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh remote.host.org tee -a ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
> 
> Congratulations! You are the Useless Use of Cat Award Winner for August 2005!

While you could turn it around:
(ssh remote.host.org tee -a ~/.ssh/authorized_keys) < ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub

It does make it a little more awkward to type.

Is there an easier way to append (rather than copy) to a file over a network than:
cat | tee -a $file

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