How do you install ssh-copy-id on a Mac?

Question

I am having trouble trying to install ssh-copy-id on my Mac. I have tried to follow https://github.com/beautifulcode/ssh-copy-id-for-OSX but every time I run ssh-copy-id it giv

Answer 1

The above methods do not work on old Macs. I have a lion OS. use this instead because the ssh-copy-id can not be installed with brew on old PCs due to compiling dependencies errors at ssl.

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@123.45.56.78 "mkdir -p ~/.ssh && cat >>  ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

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