Step 3 – Save your Private Key, send your Public Key That’s it! Your keys have been generated, now how to you get hold of them? You’ll still need this Terminal window, so keep it open for now. This can be anything you wish but please remember it as you will need to confirm it immediately after. Next you will be prompted to enter a passphrase. Please be aware that if you enter a location other than default then the code in Step 3 will change to the location you specified. If this works, you will be asked where to save your keys, the default location is fine so you can just hit enter again. Now you are ready to type, enter the following command and hit enter:
This means you are ready to go! Step 2 – Generate Your SSH Keys Once open you will be greeted with a window where your cursor is just after a $ symbol.
To get started, you need to open the Terminal application which is found in Applications > Utilities > Directory, but you can also launch this by hitting cmd+spacebar and typing “Terminal” into the search box and then return. However we recommend running this from the terminal command line as this is the easiest. There are many options of running the SSH public key on Macs.
