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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Handling ssh permission denied or timeout Post 302940258 by Corona688 on Thursday 2nd of April 2015 11:41:49 AM
Old 04-02-2015
The reason it doesn't give exit status for this is because it's supposed to give you the exit status of whatever happened on the remote end. This makes it hard to tell the difference between the code ssh gave you, and the code the remote host (if any) gave you.

The same is true for error output actually, since something on the other end could conceivably print that message on stderr instead of the local program.

Try ssh ... -E logfile instead of ssh ... 2>logfile. This definitively separates errors ssh prints from things that happen on the remote end.
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SSH-COPY-ID(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					    SSH-COPY-ID(1)

NAME
ssh-copy-id -- copy public keys to a remote host SYNOPSIS
ssh-copy-id [-lv] [-i keyfile] [-o option] [-p port] [user@]hostname DESCRIPTION
The ssh-copy-id utility copies public keys to a remote host's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file (creating the file and directory, if required). The following options are available: -i file Copy the public key contained in file. This option can be specified multiple times and can be combined with the -l option. If a private key is specified and a public key is found then the public key will be used. -l Copy the keys currently held by ssh-agent(1). This is the default if the -i option was not specified. -o ssh-option Pass this option directly to ssh(1). This option can be specified multiple times. -p port Connect to the specified port on the remote host instead of the default. -v Pass -v to ssh(1). The remaining arguments are a list of remote hosts to connect to, each one optionally qualified by a user name. EXIT STATUS
The ssh-copy-id utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. EXAMPLES
To send a specific key to multiple hosts: $ ssh-copy-id -i /path/to/keyfile.pub user@host1 user@host2 user@host3 HISTORY
The ssh-copy-id utility was written by Eitan Adler <eadler@FreeBSD.org> as a drop-in replacement for an existing utility included with OpenSSH. BSD
February 28, 2014 BSD
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