Copying a SSH public key on a VPS with a SSH connection [duplicate]

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I am trying to copy my public key on a VPS.

After I connect I run the following

xclip -sel clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Xclip gives me a can't open display error.

Right now I manually open the file and copy the key. There has to be a better, faster way to do this.

Headless servers don't have a clipboard which xclip could access. And even if they had one, the data would go to the server's clipboard and not the one on your client machine, which I guess is what you want. Use e.g. scp instead to copy files from a remote server to your local machine or another server directly over ssh. — Byte Commander, Oct 29, 2018 at 14:43

metallic · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-29 15:09:05Z

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I guess the best way copy pub key to remote host is use ssh-copy-id:

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/mykey user@host

answered Oct 29, 2018 at 15:09

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