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
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