Bug#510932: ssh-copy-id can't handle -p 2222 (or other ssh arguments)

[TANIGUCHI Takaki <takaki@asis.media-as.org>]

severity minor
quit

Could you try next? I found it worked fine.
$ ssh-copy-id '-p 2222 root@plum'

But the man page says ssh-copy-id doesn't allow a such method. I think
that we should adjust ssh-copy-id to in the man page's description or
change ssh-copy-id specification.

Thanks,
Takaki

At Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:21:22 +1100,
Trent W. Buck wrote:
> 
> Package: openssh-client
> Version: 1:5.1p1-4
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id
> 
> ssh -p 2222 root@plum works, but ssh-copy-id doesn't:
> 
> $ ssh-copy-id -p 2222 root@plum
> Bad port 'umask 077; test -d .ssh || mkdir .ssh ; cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'
> 
> The problem is that ssh-copy-id assumes that only the first argument
> is significant, which in the above example is not true.  I think there
> would be similar problems using -l root instead of root@.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 5.0
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages openssh-client depends on:
> ii  adduser               3.110              add and remove users and groups
> ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24             Debian configuration management sy
> ii  dpkg                  1.14.23            Debian package management system
> ii  libc6                 2.7-16             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libcomerr2            1.41.3-1           common error description library
> ii  libedit2              2.11~20080614-1    BSD editline and history libraries
> ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
> ii  libncurses5           5.7+20081220-1     shared libraries for terminal hand
> ii  libssl0.9.8           0.9.8g-14          SSL shared libraries
> ii  passwd                1:4.1.1-6          change and administer password and
> ii  zlib1g                1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12  compression library - runtime
> 
> Versions of packages openssh-client recommends:
> pn  openssh-blacklist             <none>     (no description available)
> pn  openssh-blacklist-extra       <none>     (no description available)
> ii  xauth                         1:1.0.3-2  X authentication utility
> 
> Versions of packages openssh-client suggests:
> ii  gtk-led-askpass [ssh-askpass] 0.10-2     GTK+ password dialog suitable for 
> pn  keychain                      <none>     (no description available)
> pn  libpam-ssh                    <none>     (no description available)
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
> 
>