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Choosing best location for authorized_keys!

Hello Friends,

I am trying to troubleshoot one scenario for the customer. In their server configuration, each vhost has it's own user. The option is to shell access chrooted.
The question is where would be the best place to store the authorized_keys file so that we can ssh in from the deployment server (SVN) without requiring user interaction?

The solution is needed for the deployment strategies from internally hosted SVN server to some of the websites.

I will appreciate the help in this matter.

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

ssh-copy-id

SSH-COPY-ID(1)						      General Commands Manual						    SSH-COPY-ID(1)

NAME

       ssh-copy-id - install your public key in a remote machine's authorized_keys

SYNOPSIS

       ssh-copy-id [-i [identity_file]] [user@]machine

DESCRIPTION

       ssh-copy-id  is	a script that uses ssh to log into a remote machine and append the indicated identity file to that machine's ~/.ssh/autho-
       rized_keys file.

       If the -i option is given then the identity file (defaults to ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) is used, regardless of whether there are any keys in  your
       ssh-agent.  Otherwise, if this:

	     ssh-add -L

       provides any output, it uses that in preference to the identity file.

       If  the -i option is used, or the ssh-add produced no output, then it uses the contents of the identity file.  Once it has one or more fin-
       gerprints (by whatever means) it uses ssh to append them to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote machine (creating the file, and directory,
       if necessary.)

NOTES

       This program does not modify the permissions of any pre-existing files or directories. Therefore, if the remote sshd has StrictModes set in
       its configuration, then the user's home, ~/.ssh folder, and ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file may need to have group writability  disabled  manu-
       ally, e.g. via

	     chmod go-w ~ ~/.ssh ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

       on the remote machine.

SEE ALSO

       ssh(1), ssh-agent(1), sshd(8)

OpenSSH 							 14 November 1999						    SSH-COPY-ID(1)

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