I am not sure if this is the correct forum for a Centos6.7/Centos 7 question but I'll ask:

I have my Centos6.7 client physically connected(hard-wired) to my Centos 7 server. I did a ssh-keygen on the client cpu and made sure my Centos 7 server was setup to receive the file from the client.(or maybe it isn't but let me give you the error) i then ran the following command:

ssh-copy-id -p35982 cajunchief@172.34.0.15 and got the following error msg:
"Bad port 'exec sh -c 'umask 077; test -d ~/.ssh || mkdir ~/.ssh ; cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys && (test -x /sbin/restorecon && /sbin/restorecon ~/.ssh ~/.ssh/authorized_keys >/dev/null 2>&1 || true)''
[cajunchief@cajunchiefcom .ssh]$"

Hostname is ok, date command works, ssh-copy-id didnt?

I sure could use some help, thank you.

cajunchief

Hi,

Please, execute the command below

ls -al ~/.ssh

Look at the results on my box.

$ ls -al ~/.ssh
drwx------. 2 user group 4096 Jun 13 20:14 .
drwx--x---+ 58 user group 4096 Jun 15 16:02 ..
-rw-------. 1 user group 713 Jun 13 20:14 config
-rw-------. 1 user group 668 Aug 29 2015 id_dsa
-rw-r--r--. 1 user group 624 Aug 29 2015 id_dsa.pub
-rw-------. 1 user group 3243 Feb 12 19:55 id_rsa
-rw-r--r--. 1 user group 760 Feb 12 19:55 id_rsa.pub
-rw-r--r--. 1 user group 3581 Jun 13 20:14 known_hosts

Then give a second glance to what I have put in bold in the output above.

SSH is very careful regarding file ownership and permissions and just refuse to execute if it feels unsafe.
I am not sure it is the solution to your problem, but it least check it.

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Since you are using a non standard port you need to use quotes i.e.

ssh-copy-id "-p 35982 cajunchief@172.34.0.15"

All ssh-copy-id is is a script that pastes the contents of ~/.ssh/id*.pub into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote machine. It's trivially easy to do this by hand if necessary.

Definitely, file-permissions ought to be among the first things that you verify. If the permissions on, say, the .ssh directory and its various contents are not "exactly correct," ssh will ignore them.

michaelk,
I thought you might be correct so I tried it and got this: ssh-copy-id"-p 35982 cajunchief@172.34.0.15"
bash: ssh-copy-id-p 35982 cajunchief@172.34.0.15 command not found

cajunchief

sundialsvcs, thanks a friend of mine told me the same thing! I am checking it.


cajunchief

tshikose,

I looked at your files and mine looks okay too or so I think. but here is what the output is:

ls -al ~/.ssh
total 24
drwx------. 3 cajunchief cajunchief 4096 Jan 18 16:05 .
drwx------. 43 cajunchief cajunchief 4096 Jun 15 14:41 ..
drwxrwxr-x. 2 cajunchief cajunchief 4096 Jan 18 16:08 cajunchieflgt
-rw-------. 1 cajunchief cajunchief 3311 Jun 10 12:21 id_rsa
-rw-r--r--. 1 cajunchief cajunchief 746 Jun 10 12:21 id_rsa.pub
-rw-r--r--. 1 cajunchief cajunchief 1587 Apr 30 17:35 known_hosts

cajunchief

Make sure there is a space between ssh-copy-id and "-p 35982 cajunchief@172.34.0.15". That is a bash error - command not found versus an ssh error.

tshikose,

Anata wa nihonjin desu ka?

Thank you for your suggestion I ran the same command and this is what I got:

ls -al ~/.ssh
total 24
drwx------. 3 cajunchief cajunchief 4096 Jan 18 16:05 .
drwx------. 43 cajunchief cajunchief 4096 Jun 15 14:41 ..
drwxrwxr-x. 2 cajunchief cajunchief 4096 Jan 18 16:08 cajunchieflgt
-rw-------. 1 cajunchief cajunchief 3311 Jun 10 12:21 id_rsa
-rw-r--r--. 1 cajunchief cajunchief 746 Jun 10 12:21 id_rsa.pub
-rw-r--r--. 1 cajunchief cajunchief 1587 Apr 30 17:35 known_hosts


cajunchief

michaelk, sorry didn't know about the bash error but I ran it again and got this:

ssh-copy-id" -p 35982 cajunchief@172.34.0.15"
bash: ssh-copy-id -p 35982 cajunchief@172.34.0.15: command not found


cajunchief

You still did not add a space between the command and the command line argument. bash still thinks it is a single command. copy-ssh-id" -p.. is not the same thing as copy-ssh-id "-p...

ssh-copy-id<space>"-p 35982 cajunchief@172.34.0.15"

michealk, are you saying i need a space between the last character 'd' and the -p?

michaelk, YEP YOU WERE AND IT WORKED! THANKS MATE!!! Problem solved!

cajunchief