In the putty config for that connection, under Connection->SSH->Auth, put the private key file in there.
Or, even better, run pagent on your private key, and then it will run in memory and never ask your password again. Kelly Thomas sent the following missive on 7/3/2007 12:45 PM: > We have recently been asked by one of our vendors to connect to their > system through SSH. They are a Unix Host - beyond that, I don't have > much information. > > We are a 'windows' shop and I'm using Putty version 0.60 to connect with > a Windows XP Professional machine. I have created a public key and sent > it to them. They have also sent their public key to me. From what > they're telling me, there should be no password to connect. > > When I try to connect it first asks for my passphrase. I'm assuming it > will only do that the first time to validate my key - not sure. > > After typing in my passphrase for the key, I get a disconnect message: > Server sent disconnect message type 7 (service not available): > "Unsupported request (pty-req)." > > This message appears to be something on their end but they are telling > me it's on my end. Can anyone help? > -- Justin Bradford Alcorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jalcorn.net PGP Fingerprint A36D D691 C5B0 BE15 5A2A AF49 AA1C 372C
