The basic was SSH runs is with keys, you create SSH keys in Mac OS X using the ssh-keygen command in Terminal. This feature looks at how to generate an SSH key pair in Terminal.

If you need to get ssh keys copied from client to server but ssh-copy-id isn't an option, you'll have to go the manual route. Here's how to do it.

Notably, even if I create the SSH private/public key without a passphrase, I still get prompted for a password--this same key works fine in Windows with Putty without a passphrase.

I don't want to force these people to use PKA since they have no idea what it is and they generally use Windows so its not quite as straight forward as just ssh-add to load a key.<BR><BR>The other ...