I used puttygen.exe and pointed PuTTY to the newly create private key file after putting the public key on remote site.
PuTTY still gives me the 'Are you sure you want to trust this key' as if it is not using the private key file. Is there some extra step to force it to use the private key file? Chris On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:10:39PM -0800, Joshua Penix wrote: > > 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 > > -- > > KPLUG-List mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- _______________________________________ Christian Seberino, Ph.D. SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego Code 2872 49258 Mills Street, Room 158 San Diego, CA 92152-5385 U.S.A. Phone: (619) 553-9973 Fax : (619) 553-6521 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________ -- KPLUG-List mailing list [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
