I used "puttygen" -- which did come with my distribution of Putty. As far as I was told, they didn't have a problem with my key. We even validated fingerprints of both keys.
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Canfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 9:44 AM To: Kelly Thomas Subject: Re: Connecting to host Putty handles key's differently than a normal ssh client. You need to create a key using the key generator provided by the makers of putty. Once that is in place, you should be set. Kelly Thomas wrote: > 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? > > -- Jim Canfield, CISSP System Administrator Tulsa Spine and Specialty Hospital Phone: 918-388-2331 Fax: 918-388-2734
