By timconwell
I was following the instructions here https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-ssh-keys-on-ubuntu-20-04
to set up ssh login to my ubuntu server. Does it matter that ssh-copy-id says “ssh-copy-id: INFO: 4 key(s) remain to be installed” rather than 1 key(s) remain to be installed ?
Is there a problem if it says 4?
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Hi there @timconwell,
This should not be a problem, it just means that you have more than 1 public key stored in your .ssh folder.
To verify this, you can run the following command:
- ls -lah ~/.ssh
Hope that this helps! Regards, Bobby
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