Set Up Public Key Authentication for SSH on the Mac [Part 2]

Peter Upfold walks you through the process of setting up a public/private key pair that you can use to log in to SSH servers from Terminal. Part 2 of 2.

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Science & Technology

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• ssh
• keypair
• Mac

[tmacka88]

how do you create a .ssh directory. cause I'm get this error.

touch: .ssh/authorized_keys: No such file or directory

[strategyoracle]

@tmacka88 "mkdir .ssh" should work. You may also need to do a "chmod 700 .ssh" as well, so that the directory permissions are correct.

[tmacka88]

any chance you could ru through for a freenas ssh key setup. If you have a freenas. Cause I can't seem to be getting this to work from my mac. when i try to connect it says Permission denied (publickey)

[Hidden87Treasure]

Thanx very much, I like the structured organized way of explanation

[Janchotheone]

Thank you! Very educating and helpful :)