Often it can be a pain to remember all the username/password combinations for all the different servers we touch in our day to day development. I’ve come to really like this lil’ bash function given to me by my co-worker Anthony DiGirolamo.
1 2 3 | function authme { ssh $@ 'cat >>.ssh/authorized_keys' < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub } |
Just put it in your ~/.bash_profile file or one of the other bash settings files you may be using.
Usage is like so
$ authme deploy@www.somedomain.com
You’ll be prompted for your password then returned to the local terminal prompt. This will ssh onto the given server and concatenate your ssh public key to the authorized_keys file. Allowing you from there on out, not having to supply a password to get on the server through ssh. Good stuff
Velocity Labs
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Great information! I’ve been looking for something like this for a while now. Thanks!
I want to quote your post in my blog. It can?
And you et an account on Twitter?
Ya no problem, and my username on Twitter is @supairish, but FYI, I don’t post too often. Thanks for reading!
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked this up “authme irish” haha! Still use this to this day…probably should have my own .profile to use by now…but alas…I’m a nomad. LOL
Haha, nice Beau, glad it’s of help to someone out there!
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