Use SSH keys in Bitbucket Pipelines - Step #3

[mehmetnyarar]

Hello,

I'm a newbie in DevOps stuff and didn't understand the step #3 in the [Use SSH keys in Bitbucket Pipelines](https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/use-ssh-keys-in-bitbucket-pipelines-847452940.html) guide.

I have Ubuntu 18.04 server on DigitalOcean and trying to setup a CI/CD workflow for a NodeJS/monorepo repository. Below are the steps I made:

- Enabled pipelines in the repository (success)

- Step1: Generated SSH key pair (success)

- Step2: Updated the known hosts (entered DO server IP and fetched, success)

At Step 3:

```sh

ssh-copy-id -i my_ssh_key user@host

```

I didn't understand this command.

- Where should I run this command? In my local machine, in the remote server?

- Should I replace `my_ssh_key` with something else? If yes, with what?

- Should I replace `user` and `host` with my DO user and IP?

Could someone please explain?

As far as I've understood, I just need to copy the public key to the `~/.ssh/authorized_keys` and that's what I did, manually. So is it enough?

[Steven Vaccarella]

Hi Mehmet,

Yes, that should be enough. The ssh-copy-id command is something you can run on your local machine to install your ssh key into ˜/.ssh/authorized_keys on your server. If you've already done that manually then you don't need to run the command.