Mac Login to Raspberry Pi with SSH key

First, operate on the MAC.

Generate key

ssh-keygen -t rsa

The carriage return uses the default to be good.

add key to Ssh-agent

$ eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"

The PID is printed to indicate that the ssh-agent status is normal and proceed to the next step.

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Add a public key to the Raspberry Pi

Check the local key:

ls -al ~/.ssh

Copy the id_rsa.pub to pi, this copy process has a simple command (Ssh-copy-id), but, the default Mac is not, so we want to install this, you can refer to the online copy, directly download back, install. If you have brew installed, it's easy:

brew install ssh-copy-id

After installation, you can use Ssh-copy-id.

ssh-copy-id [email protected]

Here is my pi username and the IP address of pi.

After the completion, login pi try to see also need not lose password.

ssh [email protected]

Do not log in directly into the password, OK.

Mac Login to Raspberry Pi with SSH key