On Jan 28, 2005, at 9:17 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trying to get PuTTY to use the RSA key on your USB stick is a real nightmare that I believe requires Admin rights on the Windoze box to add it to the registry.
What?? There is no registry tweaking needed. Use puttygen to make a public/private keypair. Add the public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_hosts on the Unix machine.
Create a session profile for the server. In the options tree, pick Connection -> SSH -> Auth and point Putty to the private (.ppk) file that matches the public key you just put on the server.
That's it, you're done. On login it will prompt for your passphrase. If you'd rather, you can run Pageant, which is an agent that sits in your tray and caches your passphrase, a la ssh-agent.
If you're missing the above tools, you didn't do a full putty install - go get the .exe installer (or each individual piece) from putty's homepage.
-- Joshua Penix http://www.binarytribe.com Binary Tribe Linux Integration Services & Network Consulting
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