[system-administrators-guide] Correct mistake in RSA ssh-copy-id

stephenw stephenw at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jun 3 22:44:00 UTC 2015


commit afa81699e3241accb0cfa2464a4ae5eaeb85716d
Author: Stephen Wadeley <swadeley at redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 3 23:59:30 2015 +0200

    Correct mistake in RSA ssh-copy-id

 en-US/OpenSSH.xml |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/en-US/OpenSSH.xml b/en-US/OpenSSH.xml
index a5b19ba..8f1a971 100644
--- a/en-US/OpenSSH.xml
+++ b/en-US/OpenSSH.xml
@@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ drwx------. 2 USER USER 54 Nov 25 16:56 /home/USER/.ssh/</screen>
             <para>
             To copy the public key to a remote machine, issue a command in the following format:
             <synopsis> <command>ssh-copy-id <replaceable>user at hostname</replaceable></command></synopsis>
-            This will copy all <filename>~/.ssh/id*.pub</filename> public keys. Alternatively, specify the public keys file name as follows:
+            This will copy the most recently modified <filename>~/.ssh/id*.pub</filename> public key if it is not yet installed. Alternatively, specify the public key's file name as follows:
             <synopsis><command>ssh-copy-id -i <filename>~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub</filename> <replaceable>user at hostname</replaceable></command></synopsis>
             This will copy the content of <filename>~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub</filename> into the <filename>~/.ssh/authorized_keys</filename> file on the machine to which you want to connect. If the file already exists, the keys are appended to its end.
             </para>
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ drwx------. 2 USER USER 54 Nov 25 16:56 /home/USER/.ssh/</screen>
             <para>
 To copy the public key to a remote machine, issue a command in the following format:
             <synopsis><command>ssh-copy-id <replaceable>USER at hostname</replaceable></command></synopsis>
-            This will copy all <filename>~/.ssh/id*.pub</filename> public keys. Alternatively, specify the public keys file name as follows:
+            This will copy the most recently modified <filename>~/.ssh/id*.pub</filename> public key if it is not yet installed. Alternatively, specify the public key's file name as follows:
             <synopsis><command>ssh-copy-id -i <filename>~/.ssh/id_ecdsa.pub</filename> <replaceable>USER at hostname</replaceable></command></synopsis>
             This will copy the content of <filename>~/.ssh/id_ecdsa.pub</filename> into the <filename>~/.ssh/authorized_keys</filename> on the machine to which you want to connect. If the file already exists, the keys are appended to its end.
             </para>


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