Is it possible to run ssh-copy-id on port other than 22?

$ ssh-copy-id "-p 8129 user@host"

Source: http://it-ride.blogspot.com/2009/11/use-ssh-copy-id-on-different-port.html

NOTE: The port must be in front of the user@host or it will not resolve

Editor's note: as pointed out in comments and shown in other answers, ssh-copy-id as shipped by more recent versions of OpenSSH supports the -p <port_number> syntax (no quotes needed).


ssh-copy-id doesn't take any arguments that it could pass down to the underlying ssh command, but you can configure an alias in ~/.ssh/config.

Host myhost
HostName hostname
Port 8129

Then run ssh-copy-id myhost.


As of openssh-client_6.2 there is now a dedicated port flag for the command allowing for this syntax:

ssh-copy-id -p 8129 user@example

It also added support for adding other ssh options with the -o flag.

Here's is Ubuntu's man page for the appropriate version, introduced in 13.04: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/saucy/man1/ssh-copy-id.1.html

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