[Gllug] Passwordless SSH

[Nix]

On Mon, 05 Sep 2005, James McGuigan gibbered uncontrollably:
> 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.

The brackets are unnecessary, though, so it's less awkward, and you can put the
redirection at the start if you like it. :)

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

Not that I know of.

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