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10.5: Use public keys with SSH in 10.5
Authored by: gcallari on Tue, Nov 6 2007 at 4:23AM PST

The password is stored in the keychain and retrieved by the ssh program. I was not aware of this and was trying to insert my password at the prompt of the remote server!