First cool thing that everybody knows already: Mac OSX is based on Unix so you get ssh out of the box.
Download Fugu SSH for free. Mac OS X frontend for OpenSSH's sftp/scp tools. Public SSH keys have a.pub extension and private keys have no extension. The default SSH public and private key names on a MacBook are idrsa.pub and idrsa. If you don’t see any keys in your SSH directory, then you can run the ssh-keygen command to generate one. You’ll be asked to enter a file name for the key pair.
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:
Openssh Client
ssh-add -K .ssh/id_whatever_your_rivate_key_is
Mac Openssh Server
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).
![Openssh Openssh](/uploads/1/1/9/8/119875744/934482042.jpg)
Very groovy!!
Openssh Mac Os X Installer
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