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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) Using a private key with SSH in terminal Post 302837705 by kylebellamy on Friday 26th of July 2013 01:54:42 PM
Old 07-26-2013
Using a private key with SSH in terminal

Before you get the wrong idea, I am not looking for how to generate one. I have a key from a server admin but I can't figure out how to use it in OS X.

I have the key, the address and everything I should need but there doesn't seem to be a step by step on how to install the key and use it in terminal.

There was a tutorial on how to add it to Keychain and a few other examples but they were generally centered around using it with that companies server or Amazon and I just can't figure it out.

So, if anyone would PLEASE help me a step by step tutorial, I would be very grateful!

I have to SSH and SCP files to the sever who's site I am working on. I can use terminal well enough but am not against a UI program if that makes more sense.

Thanks!

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Additional info: the key is an RSA key
 

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NAME
ktutil -- manage Kerberos keytabs SYNOPSIS
ktutil [-k keytab | --keytab=keytab] [-v | --verbose] [--version] [-h | --help] command [args] DESCRIPTION
ktutil is a program for managing keytabs. Supported options: -v, --verbose Verbose output. command can be one of the following: add [-p principal] [--principal=principal] [-V kvno] [--kvno=kvno] [-e enctype] [--enctype=enctype] [-w password] [--pw-file=filename] [--password=password] [-r] [--random] [-s] [--no-salt] [-H] [--hex] Adds a key to the keytab. Options that are not specified will be prompted for. This requires that you know the password or the hex key of the principal to add; if what you really want is to add a new principal to the keytab, you should consider the get command, which talks to the kadmin server. --pw-file can specify either a file with a password, or the string STDIN. In the latter case the password is read from stdin. change [-r realm] [--realm=realm] [--a host] [--admin-server=host] [--s port] [--server-port=port] Update one or several keys to new versions. By default, use the admin server for the realm of a keytab entry. Otherwise it will use the values specified by the options. If no principals are given, all the ones in the keytab are updated. copy [--filter-principal=string] Ar keytab-src Ar keytab-dest Copies all the entries from keytab-src to keytab-dest. Optionally a princial can be selected as a filter and then just entries matching that principal is copied out. The matching applies globing rules on each component (eg foo*/host.domain@REALM) is a valid filter principal. get [-p admin principal] [--principal=admin principal] [-e enctype] [--enctypes=enctype] [-r realm] [--realm=realm] [-a admin server] [--admin-server=admin server] [-s server port] [--server-port=server port] principal ... For each principal, generate a new key for it (creating it if it doesn't already exist), and put that key in the keytab. If no realm is specified, the realm to operate on is taken from the first principal. list [--keys] [--timestamp] List the keys stored in the keytab. remove [-p principal] [--principal=principal] [-V -kvno] [--kvno=kvno] [-e -enctype] [--enctype=enctype] Removes the specified key or keys. Not specifying a kvno removes keys with any version number. Not specifying an enctype removes keys of any type. rename from-principal to-principal Renames all entries in the keytab that match the from-principal to to-principal. purge [--age=age] Removes all old versions of a key for which there is a newer version that is at least age (default one week) old. SEE ALSO
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