On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, M.W.Chang wrote: > it worked, but it's better you generate the private key using > puttygen.exe, then cut-and-paste the public key on in the textbox into > authorized_keys2. > > Maybe we should update the ssh how-to in sxs. > btw, someone wrote a ssh key how-to. > > "M.W.Chang" wrote: > > > > I was right. I scanned comp.security.ssh and found one user saying this: > > > > "... You must generate your keys with puttykeygen : Putty doesn't handle > > private keys generated with openssh or ssh.com. I had the same problem. > > Now, it works perfectly."
Glad to hear it worked. I was going to suggest the puttykeygen route if you hadn't got your issue resolved. FWIW, my understanding is that openssh is going to use authorized_keys instead of authorized_keys2 starting the the version 3.X series. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
