I'm connected to Ubuntu server that is a member of a corporate Active Directory domain via likewise-open. The users are in the form mydomain\myuser
. I can connect to it via ssh, escaping the \
with another \
:
ssh mydomain\\myuser@myserver
I've generated a pair of keys via ssh-keygen
, then tried to copy it to the remote machine. The user I'm using in the local machine is not the same I want to copy the key into, so I issued the command:
ssh-copy-id mydomain\\myuser@myserver
and the output:
password:
password:
password:
mydomainyuser@myserver's password:
Received disconnect from myserver: 2: Too many authentication failures for myuserydomain
prompting me for the local user's password three times, and then the \\
actually worked as a single \
escaping the first m
in mydomain
. Am I getting this straight? And how can I escape that \
and correctly copy key to the remote machine?
EDIT: also ssh-copy-id myuser@mydomain.com@myserver
turned out to be a valid syntax.. However, the question was about escaping the \
.
Best Answer
The reason this is happening is because you are escaping it for the shell, but
ssh-copy-id
is also attempting to interpret it. This should work: