Having to type a thousand times the password when SSH'ing into a server commonly used is a pain: the obvious solution is to use key-based auth - this is a handy script that takes out even the effort of having to remember (not to mention) type up every time the same set of commands. You will have to enter the password to the remote host twice, bu…

scp-pub-remote.sh

#!/bin/bash
#
# Copies the PUB key to a server via SCP then adds it to
# .ssh/authorized_keys.
#
# Must be invoked like this: 
#    scp-pub-remote.sh user@server

declare -r REMOTE=$1

if [ -z $REMOTE ]; then
    echo "Must be invoked with username@server as the one and only argument"
    exit 1
fi

scp $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub $REMOTE:
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
    ssh $REMOTE "if [ ! -e .ssh ];then mkdir .ssh;fi && cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys"
    echo 'Public key copied to ' $REMOTE
fi