You can generate a key in Mac OS using the ssh-keygen command. You should run it in Terminal. You will be asked for a file in which the key should be saved to and for a passphrase (password) for the key:
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user@localhost:<strong>ssh-keygen-tdsa</strong>
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Generating public/privatedsa key pair.
Enter file inwhich tosave the key(/Users/user/.ssh/id_dsa):id_dsa
Enter passphrase(empty forno passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved inid_dsa.
Your publickey has been saved inid_dsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
16:8e:e8:f2:1d:c9:b9:cf:43:9a:b3:3c:c1:1f:95:93user@localhost
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This will create a private key written to ~/.ssh/id_dsa and a public key written to ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub. The passphrase is used to protect your key. You will be asked for it when you load your key. You can do that using the following command:
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_dsa
