Last updated 29 February 2012.

I'm trying to connect to my linux server which uses public key authentication. By default, the.ssh folder is hidden on my mac (which I can access via the terminal). However, when I try to setup a connection using either Cyberduck or Transmit, the Finder popup that opens does not show the.ssh folder. This will step you through the process of generating a SSH keypair on Mac OS X. Begin by opening your Terminal, generally found in the 'Utilities' subdirectory of your 'Applications' directory. Before you generate your keypair, come up with a passphrase. Oct 06, 2018  Generate SSH Private and Public Keys in macOS Mojave. This guide goes through setting up SSH keys on macOS Mojave 10.14 back to Mac OSX 10.11 and also a secure password-less SSH connection between a local macOS workstation and a remote server also running a Linux variant operating system.

This will step you through the process of generating a SSH keypair on Mac OS X. Begin by opening your Terminal, generally found in the 'Utilities' subdirectory of your 'Applications' directory.

Generating a keypair

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Before you generate your keypair, come up with a passphrase. The rules for good passwords also apply here: mix of upper and lower case, numbers, spaces and punctuation. Limit it to less than 31 characters.

Now, generate your keypair! Enter the following:

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C 'yourname@yourdomain.ext'

Note: Do not type the dollar sign above; it is an example of the default command prompt shown by Mac OS X. Your actual prompt may be different. In the example above and below, the actual part you should type is the part that follows the dollar sign.

Your terminal should respond:

Press Return to accept the default value. Your terminal should respond: Spotify mini player mac download.

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Enter the passphrase you decided on above. The response will be:

Enter same passphrase again:

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Enter the passphrase again and press Return. The program will think a bit, and respond with something like this. Note that many of the details in the example below are just for example purposes; much of the actual output you see will differ from the below.

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How do I copy my public key into my Mac's clipboard?

You can use the pbcopy utility to easily insert your public key (or other text files) into your Mac's clipboard so that you can add it to your Drupal.org profile, GitHub, or other places. The filename should be yourfilename.pub - with yourfilename being the filename you entered when you first created this file. If you just hit enter, the default is id_rsa.pub.

$ pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

You won't see any output in the terminal, but the contents of your public key will now be in your clipboard and can be easily pasted anywhere where you can normally paste text.

In case you're curious, the pbpaste utility works the other way, allowing you to easily grab the contents of the clipboard for use in the terminal. For example, the following command will write the contents of the clipboard to a file:

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$ pbpaste > ~/clipboard.text