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ssh-copy-id makes it easy to transfer a public key to a remote machine.
Is there any equivalent tool for moving a private key?
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Don't do this! (see answer)
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ssh-copy-id makes it easy to transfer a public key to a remote machine.
Is there any equivalent tool for moving a private key?
update
Don't do this! (see answer)
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Good practice says that you shouldn't copy private keys from one machine to another. When you need access from a new client machine, create a new key on that machine, and set up the corresponding public key in your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
file on the server.
Doing this allows you to disable access from one client machine at a time, if you need to (suppose a laptop was stolen, for example).
ah okay, true :) – John Bachir – 2011-09-27T17:28:18.120
+1 for reminding me to use
ssh-copy-id
to copy a public key – rymo – 2011-10-17T01:57:59.077