Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot login with publickey on sshd

["Eric Martin" <freak4uxxx@gmail.com>]

Great to hear that the problem is solved!  I've used puttygen before
to convert keys (both ways) but when I used it the other day to create
a key on windows & convert it wouldn't work. Oh well!

On 12/18/08, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 December 2008 23:17:13 Mick wrote:
>> > The only time I have a problem w/pub/private keys is when
>> > I create them on a windows box and try to export it to ssh.  The other
>> > way around always works for me.
>>
>> The MSWindows generated keys will work, either from PuTTY or Cygwin, but
>> you have to be careful with hard returns at the end of lines (CR/LF).  Use
>> Notepad++ to paste your key in and you should find that it works fine.
>
> PuTTY comes with a utility to convert it's keys to openssh format. I insist
> my
> PuTTY users do this themselves before they send me the public key to be
> deployed on the servers. It works well for me - if they get stroppy and
> don't
> do this, they don't get access <shrug>
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
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