On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:38:39 -0500, Brent wrote
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i then tried to use the key from a winblows putty ssh client and i
get the folowing error when trying to login to the unix box
Unable to use key file C:\id_dsa (OpenSSH SSH2 private key)
Any help is very appreciated
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On my freebsd 4.10 im trying to setup ssh2 to use dsa keys for authentication
instead of passwords ..
so far i have done
edit /etc/sshd_config
Port 22
Protocol 2
PermitRootLogin no
MaxStartups 5:50:10
X11Forwarding no
PrintLastLog yes
SyslogFacility auth
LogLevel VERBOSE
PasswordAuthentication
so far i have done
edit /etc/sshd_config
Port 22
Protocol 2
PermitRootLogin no
MaxStartups 5:50:10
X11Forwarding no
PrintLastLog yes
SyslogFacility auth
LogLevel VERBOSE
PasswordAuthentication no
PermitEmptyPasswords no
Banner /etc/issue
AllowGroups sshusers -- this exsists
# create some
Unable to use key file C:\id_dsa (OpenSSH SSH2 private key)
Any help is very appreciated
Brent:
Sorry, I didn't read your post closely enough the first time. I think
you also need to convert the openssh private key (id_dsa) into a form
that putty can use. If I recall correctly there should
this just in.
On
the Windows box, you need to run puttygen.exe
append the pub key to
~/.ssh/authorized_keys (on the server)
and then load the private key (*.ppk file you generated) into putty and
slide into home plate
the key here (no pun intended) is to generate the pair oin the client,
Thank you ...that worked ...
B
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 14:21:27 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
so far i have done
edit /etc/sshd_config
Port 22
Protocol 2
PermitRootLogin no
MaxStartups 5:50:10
X11Forwarding no
PrintLastLog yes
SyslogFacility auth
LogLevel VERBOSE
got it going ...here is what i did
on the server i ran
ssh-keygen -d
it created 2 files in my ~user/.ssh
id_dsa
id_dsa.pub
i then did
mv id_dsa.pub authorized_keys
i then scp the priv key to my winblows workstation and used puttygen to
convert it to something that putty can use
i chose
