Bug#226172: ssh-copy-id should strip colon at the end

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 08:36:07PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Since scp expects a colon at the end of a hostname, I'm used to typing
> this also when using ssh-copy-id.  Unfortunately, ssh-copy-id
> currently doesn't strip the colon.
> 
> 
> 2124:tbm@deprecation: ~] ssh-copy-id vile:
> ssh: vile:: Name or service not known

It occurs to me that perhaps ssh is the tool that should be stripping
the colon, if anything.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]