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Scenario: You just installed your Linux Server now you want to be able to SSH to that server using your SSH Keys so you don’t have to authenticate via password each time.

Assumption: You have already created your public and private SSH Keys and now you want to copy the Public Key to the Server so you can authenticate with SSH Keys.

The utility we are going to use is ssh-copy-id. This will copy your current user’s public SSH Key to the remote host.

1. Copy the public SSH Key to the remote host like this:
   $ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub [remote-host]
2. You will be prompted to enter the password for the New Host. It will copy over your public ssh key from ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub. 
3. You should now be able to ssh to the remote host using keys as your authentication method instead of password.