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Description of problem:

ssh-copy-id tries to detect that key is already present on the remote host.
It does by trying to log in there and checking for string 'Permission denied' in the error output. However one can have set custom loglevel which will not produce this output.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openssh-clients-6.6.1p1-25.el7_2

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ~/.ssh/config contains "LogLevel QUIET" for remote host
2. ssh-copy-id remote.host

Actual results:
WARNING: All keys were skipped because they already exist on the remote system.

Expected results:
asked for password and key is copied

Additional info:
openssh-clients-7.2p2-7.fc24 specifies log level inside ssh-copy-id

This is already fixed upstream [1] from commit in ssh-copy-id repo [2]. It sounds reasonable to fix this also in RHEL7.

[1] https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/ef39e8c0497ff0564990a4f9e8b7338b3ba3507c
[2] http://git.hands.com/?p=ssh-copy-id.git;a=commit;h=35f05e39cda8670b3f6797330a3e521fda509a4c

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2588.html