Posts tagged os

Tip of the Day: Fixing Page Up and Page Down Keys in Leopard's Terminal.app

05/11/2008

by Ben Allen

To expand on my last post about fixing the home and end keys in Terminal here is how to fix the Page Up and Page Down keys.

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Tip of the Day - SSH Keys and Mac OS X Leopard

01/18/2008

by Ben Allen

Create a standard SSH keypair by using the ssh-keygen command. When prompted for a passphrase enter one. Copy your ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub to your destination's authorized_keys file. Now login to your destination from the Terminal with ssh. You will be pleasantly surprised with a pop-up box asking for the password associated with the id_rsa SSH key. It gives you the option to store this password in your Leopard keychain if you wish. This effectively takes place of using a ssh-agent to store SSH keys. Continue reading »