In fact, I recommend that you don't proceed until you understand more about what's happening here. However, if this is the first time you’ve ever done this, and you get this warning message, for some reason this file has already been created, so be very careful about how you proceed.
If you’re very comfortable with this process and you want to overwrite your id_rsa file, do what you're comfortable with. It's important to note that if you just go with the defaults, as I'm about to show, and you already have a file named id_rsa, your system should warn you, like this:Įnter file in which to save the key (/Users/al/.ssh/id_rsa): The first file ( id_rsa) contains my private key, and the second file ( id_rsa.pub) contains my public key. Those two files are named id_rsa and id_rsa.pub. ssh, which is located in my home directory. When I run this command on my Mac laptop, which is a MacOS system (which is itself a version of Unix), it creates two files in a directory named.
SSH COPY WITHOUT TERMINAL HOW TO
The following Unix/Linux commands (and resulting system output) demonstrate how to create a public and private key pair on your local Unix computer system. Step 1: Generate a public and private key pair