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For more background and examples, see Detailed steps to create SSH key pairs. For additional ways to generate and use SSH keys on a Windows computer, see How to use SSH keys with Windows on Azure. Supported SSH key formats. Azure currently supports SSH protocol 2 (SSH-2) RSA public-private key pairs with a minimum length of 2048 bits. When you generate your keys, you will use ssh-keygen to store the keys in a safe location so you can bypass the login prompt when connecting to your server. To generate SSH keys in Mac OS X, follow these steps: Enter the following command in the Terminal window. Ssh-keygen -t rsa This starts the key generation process. How to use PuTTY SSH keys with the built-in OpenSSH. If you have a PuTTY.ppk format private key and want to use it with the built-in OpenSSH on Mac on the command line or in scripts, you can use the following commands. First, install PuTTY for Mac using brew install putty or port install putty (see below). If these files exist, then you have already created SSH keys. You can overwrite the keys with the following commands, or skip this step and go to configuring SSH keys to reuse these keys. Create your SSH keys with the ssh-keygen command from the bash prompt. This command will create a 2048-bit RSA key for use with SSH.
First cool thing that everybody knows already: Mac OSX is based on Unix so you get ssh out of the box.
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...
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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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ssh-add -K .ssh/id_whatever_your_rivate_key_is
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).
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Very groovy!!
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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