problem was between the monitor and  keyboard

For some reason it did not like that i was specifying a name for the public key but when i let it create one in /home/dynamox/.ssh/id_rsa.pub, it worked fine.

[dynamox@linux ~]$ ssh-keygen

Generating public/private rsa key pair.

Enter file in which to save the key (/home/dynamox/.ssh/id_rsa):

Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):

Enter same passphrase again:

Your identification has been saved in /home/dynamox/.ssh/id_rsa.

Your public key has been saved in /home/dynamox/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.

The key fingerprint is:

fa:c7:ab:7f:1b:82:8c:2f:48:23:a6:91:96:ed:18:0a dynamox@linux.mycompany.com