I found SSHKeyChain to be
one of the most useful utilities on MacOS X so far. The Website
states Painless ssh key management for MacOS X
and they don't
exaggerate. I can just import new
ssh keys (the ever growing list
of SVN+SSH repositories...) and stop thinking about them.
Apple's Keychain takes
care of the passphrase management.
In addition, it comes with a small environment property list editor built-in:
Update 2009-06-15: Outdated Link to heading
Since MacOS 10.5 Leopard
, SSHKeyChain is no longer needed.
The version of SSH that comes with the OS is integrated nicely with
KeyChain
Access.