ssh-copy-id no identities found error

Question

I have few client systems where I need to push the ssh key and login from my server without authentication prompts.

First, on the server, I created ssh key as below whi

Answer 1

You need to use the -i flag:

ssh-copy-id -i my.key.pub 10.10.1.1

From the man page:

If the -i option is given then the identity file (defaults to ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) is used, regardless of whether there are any keys in your ssh-agent. Otherwise, if this: ssh-add -L provides any output, it uses that in preference to the identity file

Answer 2

In my case it was the missing .pub extension of a key. I pasted it from clipboard and saved as mykey. The following command returned described error:

ssh-copy-id -i mykey localhost

After renaming it with mv mykey mykey.pub, works correctly.

ssh-copy-id -i mykey.pub localhost

Answer 3

The ssh-copy-id is not able to locate the id_rsa.pub file that is generated by ssh-keygen in your system, Use the following command to complete:

1. find the path of the .pub file: locate *.pub
2. copy the path (ex: /home/user_name/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) and run the following command: ssh-copy-id -i /home/user_name/.ssh/id_rsa.pub hostname

Answer 4

Generating ssh keys on the client solved it for me

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa

Answer 5

The simplest way is to:

ssh-keygen
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cd ~/.ssh
ssh-copy-id -i id_rsa.pub USERNAME@SERVERTARGET

Att:

Its very very simple.

In manual of "ss-keygen" explains:

"DESCRIPTION ssh-keygen generates, manages and converts authentication keys for ssh(1). ssh-keygen can create RSA keys for use by SSH protocol version 1 and DSA, ECDSA or RSA keys for use by SSH protocol version 2. The type of key to be generated is specified with the -t option. If invoked without any arguments, ssh-keygen will generate an RSA key for use in SSH protocol 2 connections."

Answer 6

Use simple ssh-keyscan hostname to find if key(s) exists on both sites:

ssh-keyscan rc1.localdomain
[or@rc2 ~]$ ssh-keyscan rc1
# rc1 SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.3
rc1 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABI.......==

ssh-keyscan rc2.localdomain
[or@rc2 ~]$ ssh-keyscan rc2
# rac2 SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.3
rac2 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAys7kG6pNiC.......==