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Discussion on: How to Manage Multiple SSH Key Pairs

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josephvaughan

Excellent article. In step five is there a reason not to use ssh-copy-id instead of the copy and paste method?

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Daniel Uber

I think the reasoning for copy/paste is that the goal was to add keys to services like github and bitbucket (where there's no obvious way to use ssh-copy-id).