Need to setup private/public key server connections for e.g. password less ssh communications? Tired of manually having to copy around public keys?
pubkey creates a RESTful endpoint and replies with the public key you want to share. Default is plain text so you can use curl to download and apply the public key with a single step. Optionally the key can be wrapped in a json document for other usecases.
Simply run the following command on the source server:
$ pubkey --auto # Starts the pubkey server with default settings and IP auto detection
INFO: pubkey file used: /Users/xxxxx/.ssh/id_rsa.pub INFO: pubkey server started at http://192.168.0.36:1080 Remote host command:
curl -s -S 192.168.0.36:1080 >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
Press ctrl-C to stop.
Then copy the curl statement provide above to the terminal of the server you would like to add the public key to:
curl -s -S 192.168.0.36:1080 >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
Done. If you did not get an error (e.g. unreachable host) you are all set.
For more information head over to github: https://github.com/fxstein/pubkey