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Add your public SSH key to your server in one command
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Add Your Public SSH Key To Your Server In One Command

You will need to create .ssh/authorized_keys if it is not yet on your server.

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh user@hostname 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

Generating Your Own Public Key

Github has an excellent guide on generating SSH keys

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There is a standard tool for this called ssh-copy-id thats distributed with openssh.

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