Great to hear that the problem is solved! I've used puttygen before to convert keys (both ways) but when I used it the other day to create a key on windows & convert it wouldn't work. Oh well!
On 12/18/08, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday 18 December 2008 23:17:13 Mick wrote: >> > The only time I have a problem w/pub/private keys is when >> > I create them on a windows box and try to export it to ssh. The other >> > way around always works for me. >> >> The MSWindows generated keys will work, either from PuTTY or Cygwin, but >> you have to be careful with hard returns at the end of lines (CR/LF). Use >> Notepad++ to paste your key in and you should find that it works fine. > > PuTTY comes with a utility to convert it's keys to openssh format. I insist > my > PuTTY users do this themselves before they send me the public key to be > deployed on the servers. It works well for me - if they get stroppy and > don't > do this, they don't get access <shrug> > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > >
