Comments on: Save SSH password for use in "Terminal" (OSX or *Nix)

By: Vince

Vince — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:23:07 +0000

You rock good sir! Well written, easy-to-follow tutorial, consider this bookmarked for future reference!

By: JP

JP — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:24:42 +0000

I figured out a workaround. In the Terminal preferences, I edited the Shell settings so that on Startup it runs the command "source .profile".

By: JP

JP — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:00:15 +0000

Thanks Shanx.
Everything works without a hitch except for one thing.

The aliases are not being remembered. Every time I close the terminal window it forgets them, and I get this error:

–bash: s: command not found

However, when I type "source .profile" again it remembers. That means for each new window I open have to source the profile again. Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong?

By: mike

mike — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 01:13:52 +0000

still asking for the password for me I followed everything. Could the security on my server not allow login via authorized keys?

By: Kyle Bandy

Kyle Bandy — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:38:58 +0000

Absolutely awesome guide! Really a great timesaver here. Thanks a billion!

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:21:25 +0000

ssh-copy-id –i user@server

that is a lot quicker for copying the key to the server.

By: Slobo

Slobo — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:48:08 +0000

Thank you!!!! That's what I was looking for

By: puneriashu

puneriashu — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 22:00:45 +0000

great tip. very handy .. you just increased my productivity.

By: David

David — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:56:30 +0000

Thank you!
As web developer, this becomes very handy if you deploy your projects via rsync (over ssh). Once done, it saves a lot of time. Worked great.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 05 May 2010 00:49:20 +0000

Great writeup. I noticed that I also have to issue the following command for things to work:
chmod 700 ~/.ssh; chmod 600 ~/ssh/authorized_keys