First cool thing that everybody knows already: Mac OSX is based on Unix so you get ssh out of the box.
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Replace the user and server with your username and the server address you wish to use the key authentication on. Ssh-copy-id -i /.ssh/idrsa.pub user @ server. This also assumes you saved the key pair using the default file name and location. If not, just replace the key path /.ssh/idrsa.pub above with your own key name. You got it the wrong way round:-) create a key pair on the Mac you are using; put both idrsa.pub and idrsa into /.ssh and run chmod 600 idrsa; append the generated public key (idrsa.pub) to.ssh/authorizedkeys on the remote machine (your server in this case).
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Second cool thing you may not know: OS X 10.5 actually also comes with an ssh key agent (ssh-agent). That means that, without any additional software (like PuTTY Agent on Windows...), Mac OSX can actually load an encrypted private key into memory and remember it for all subsequent connections...
Third cool thing that almost seems too good to be true: ssh-agent can store the passwords of the encrypted keys into your keychain. Than means that you have to tell it once to remember the decryption password for your key(s) like this:
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And next time you log into your mac and try to ssh somewhere, your private key will be loaded automagically (as long as your keychain is unlocked of course).
Very groovy!!
This entry was posted on Dec 21 2008 at 02:34 by admin and is filed under Linux stuff, Mac stuff. Tags: howto, mac os x, ssh, terminal
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When you're logged in to your Mac using an administrator account, you can use the
sudo command in the Terminal app to execute commands as a different user, such as the root user. After you enter the command, Terminal asks you to enter your account password. If you forgot your password or your account doesn't have a password, add or change your password in Users & Groups preferences. You can then execute sudo commands in Terminal.
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Terminal doesn't show the password as you type. If you enter the wrong password or a blank password, the command isn't executed and Terminal asks you to try again.
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