I'm setting up another pc on my network. it will eventually be headless.
It currently boots into the centos CLI ~ which is fine. now i want to copy over my ssh rsa key from my main debian pc to the new centos one.
I can ssh from debian to centos with 'normal password'
ssh-copy-id [userName]@192.168.100.169
the terminal will then ask for the password, and everything is fine, however when I attempt to copy my public key to the server using
ssh-copy-id -i id_rsa.pub [userName]@192.168.100.169
the call will eventually time out... here is the output
/usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: INFO: attempting to log in with the new key(s), to filter out any that are already installed /usr/bin/ssh-copy-id: ERROR: ssh: connect to host 92.168.100.169 port 22: Connection timed out
I now that using a standard ssh login I can get the debug info, but how do I debug the ssy-copy-id command, i've tried
ssh-copy-id -i id_rsa.pub -o -v [userName]@192.168.100.169 ssh-copy-id -i id_rsa.pub -v [userName]@192.168.100.169
but I just get errors for invalid options, so I have no way to debug what isn't working.
I've done a similar thing with other virtual machines (also running debian) and they have copied over the rsa key almost instantly, what config option have I got that is different between debian and Centos that is causing me grief ?
All help would be much appreciated.
thanks in advance
David
p.s. I've copied this question to here from my StackExchange question because I put it on the wrong site !
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