So you will have: cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | pbcopy If you see a bunch of gibberish starting with 'ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nz' you have a key! Just press the up-arrow on your keyboard (which will show the last command typed) and add the pipe | along with 'pbcopy' (pbcopy is a command line utility to copy to the keyboard). Open the Terminal application (in Applications > Utilities) and type this: cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub You probably already have an SSH key on your Mac. If not it's easy to generate one. These are fairly easy to manage on Mac/Linux machines. We are a bit more strict about our security than most hosts in that we do not use the traditional username/password combination to access web sites.
