As a Linux and OS X systems administrator, I spent a lot of time working in SSH terminals on various servers. Public key authentication means I don’t need to enter my password to log on to each individual machine.
SSH Agent is a graphical interface for the OpenSSH utilities that are distributed with OS X. It stores your passphrase using Keychain, and can be set to start automatically on login.
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