ssh-copy-id will prompt you for the password to the remote machine.

The error I'm getting is this $ssh -v localhostĭebug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_configĭebug1: /etc/ssh/ssh_config line 48: Applying options for *ĭebug1: identity file /Users/gkumar6/.ssh/id_rsa type 0ĭebug1: key_load_public: No such file or directoryĭebug1: identity file /Users/gkumar6/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1ĭebug1: identity file /Users/gkumar6/.ssh/id_dsa type -1ĭebug1: identity file /Users/gkumar6/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1ĭebug1: identity file /Users/gkumar6/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1ĭebug1: identity file /Users/gkumar6/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1ĭebug1: identity file /Users/gkumar6/.ssh/id_ed25519 type -1ĭebug1: identity file /Users/gkumar6/.ssh/id_ed25519-cert type -1ĭebug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_7. In this example I will use a machine called If you are username is the same on both systems then you do not have to use pete in the destination.

Eventhough it is enabled, I'm not able to ssh to localhost. I found some posts asking to enable Remote Login in System Preferences -> Sharing. I found that sshd is not running in the machine (no process is running on port 22).

I'm not able to ssh to localhost on my Mac.

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