Anthony Nocentino shows how to use Powershell to distribute SSH keys to remote machines:
Folks in the Linux world are used to moving SSH keys to and from systems enabling password-less authentication using SSH user keys. Let’s take a minute to look at what it takes to use PowerShell to distribute SSH user keys to remote systems.
In the OpenSSH package there’s a command ssh-copy-id which is a bash script that copies a user’s public key to a remote systems. There’s a little intelligence in the script to set things up properly on the remote system for password-less key based authentication. If the appropriate directory and key file aren’t set up, ssh-copy-idwill create the directory and key file with the correct permissions on remote system. As far as I can tell, ssh-copy-id has not been implemented in the Win32-OpenSSH port. So that leaves us with implementing this functionality ourselves, in PowerShell.
Read on to see how he does it.