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SSH Public Key Screencast Notes

These are just a few quick notes to accompany Peter Upfold's screencast. If you haven't ready I would suggest you give it a watch before following this rather brief notes

On the local machine

run: ssh-keygen -t rsa
Accept default path.
Enter a passphrase. (terminal can save this in Keychain)
Finder > Go > Type: ".ssh"
Copy id_rsa.pub

On the remote machine

run: touch .ssh/authorized_keys
Edit the file: .ssh/authorised_keys
Paste the contents of the id_rsa.pub file into .ssh/authorized_keys

Permissions Check

The authorized_keys file needs to be rw for the user.
That is chmod 600 to change, if needed.

Logging in

Login as usual from the Terminal.
When asked for the password to the ssh key, this is the passphrase mentioned earlier.

Once again, thank you, Peter for recording it for me, and the mention.

Posted on 18 Sep 2009.