Bug 2269

Summary:	ssh-copy-id: does not respect .ssh/config
Product:	Portable OpenSSH	Reporter:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster>
Component:	ssh-copy-id	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	fedor.tyurin
Priority:	P5
Version:	6.6p1
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux

Description Toralf Förster 2014-09-01 00:03:18 AEST

This is my config (stable 32 bit Gentoo Linux) :

tfoerste@n22 ~ $ cat .ssh/config

Host n22kvm
IdentityFile=/home/tfoerste/.ssh/id_rsa-kvm

Host n22stab4
IdentityFile=/home/tfoerste/.ssh/id_rsa-uml

I#d expect, that ssh-copy-id would not transfer id-rs.pub to n22kvm when I run, but in fact I have to expliciteöy specify the public key otherweise ssh-key-based login to n22kvm won't work.

$> ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa-kvm.pub root@n22kvm


Because ssh itself respects the config values I'm wondering if this is a bug or a feature ?

Comment 1 Fedor Tyurin 2014-09-19 07:06:31 AEST

I've faced with the same issue. Am I doing something wrong or ssh-copy-id really doesn't look into .ssh/config? For me it seems inconvenient, but I guess there should be some reason for that... would be interesting to know. Thanks!

Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2014-11-09 04:10:57 AEDT

well - it is a bug IMO or ?

Comment 3 Damien Miller 2015-08-11 23:03:53 AEST

Set all RESOLVED bugs to CLOSED with release of OpenSSH 7.1