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mattiamueggler
New Contributor
2 years ago

save ssh public key with ssh-copy-id to server

I generated a ssh-key with 1Password. How can I save the public key to my remote Linux VM? If I enter this: ssh-add -L I get several keys which are stored in my 1Password. How can I choose one of t...
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Michael_Mercuri
Frequent Contributor
2 years ago

When I'm using ssh keys managed with 1Password, I store the public key files in my ~/.ssh directory and reference the public keys in ~/.ssh/config. For example, ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub.

If you did this, I think could you copy the public key file using ssh-copy-id (I haven't tried it.) Either way, I really like the idea of my private keys not being stored on disk and only in my encrypted 1Password vault.