How the heck do I copy or paste anything from the web console? I’ve tried both Safari and Chrome. I’m trying to get ssh to work but I can’t copy/paste keys or get authorized any other way.
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I got it. I just needed to ssh in as root to set everything up.
Was locked out due to disabling password authentication and Permission denied (publickey).
On a Mac, wrote an AppleScript to type.
In Script Editor located /Applications/Utilities/Script Editor
tell application "System Events"
set textToType to "ssh-rsa AAAAB..."
delay 20
repeat with i from 1 to count characters of textToType
keystroke (character i of textToType)
delay 0.6
end repeat
end tell
Make sure to have ~/.ssh/authorized_keys already open in an editor and in insert mode waiting to type
Press play
After a 20 second delay (hopefully, enough time to change to the console browser window ready for the typing to start) this will type the text inside set textToType to emulating keystrokes
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