You often need to create identities for unknown/new servers. Then welcome to this article. I believe i have a best practice way of doing it on a MAC system. First of all you need your identity file: 1. Generating ssh keys set You need to use tool that any unix system usually has. It's ssh-keygen. (Skip if you have it already) Last login: Wed Aug 21 16 : 07 : 34 on ttys002 console@username:~$ ssh-keygen -t rsa Generating public/private rsa key pair. Enter file in which to save the key (/Users /username/ .ssh/id_rsa): yourkeyname Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): Enter same passphrase again: Your identification has been saved in yourkeyname. Your public key has been saved in yourkeyname.pub. The key fingerprint is: XX.XX.XX.XX.XX.XX.XX.XX.XX.XX.XX.XX. console@username The key 's randomart image is: +--[ RSA 2048]----+ | + | | + | | + | | + ...
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