drush pushkey

Earlier this week I gave a drush demo to some people in another division of my company. A key step in setting up site aliases to talk to remote servers (pardon the pun) is the establishment of public / private key pairs to protect the ssh transport that drush uses during syncs and executing remote commands.

To make this easier, I use a bash script called "pushkey"; after this demo, it occurred to me that having pushkey available as part of drush core would be very convenient. So, although public / private key initialization is not Drupal-specific, it is an integral part of a Drupal / drush system setup; I therefore propose that the pushkey command be added to drush core.

Enclosed is the version of pushkey that I ported from bash to a drush command. This file is currently living in my .drush folder (rename from ".txt" to ".inc"). If you agree, I'll move it into drush core, integrating it a-la drush rsync.