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    Probably not the best way to do things these days.


If your remote username is different from your OS X username, edit your ~/.ssh/config file like so:
Host whathaveyou.com
    User remote_username

Generating your keys

On your OS X machine, enter this command:
ssh-keygen

Enter a password or don't (I didn't).
This creates a public (~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) and private key (~/.ssh/id_rsa).
Copying the public key to the remote server

Log in to the server with ssh (with your password--for the last time).
However you want to do it, open the file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the remote server and paste in the contents of id_rsa.pub. Alternately, you could use scp like so:
scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub remote_username@whathaveyou.com:~/.ssh/authorized_keys

(Naturally, if the file and/or folder aren't there, you'll have to create them first.)
Now change the permissions:
chmod 700 ~/.ssh/
chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

All done.  The next time you want to ssh to the server, it won't prompt you for a password.
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