putty-0.52 and openssh-3.1.0

[Keith Morse]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, toylet wrote:

> I have already tried both all 3 keys: rsa1, rsa and dsa.
> 
> For protocol version 2:
> 
> id_rsa.pub as authorized_keys in ~/.ssh
> id_rsa in putty.
> Gave me a "No supported authenication" in /var/log/secure.
> 
> id_dsa.pub as authorized_keys in ~/.ssh
> id_dsa in putty.
> openssh didn't even give me a prompt for login id.
> 
> For protocol version 1:
> 
> identity.pub as authorized_keys in ~/.ssh
> identity in putty.
> they are working fine.
> 
> Why all these hussles?
> 
> I can never be a paranoid in security, just wanna know whtehr putty was
> supposed to support all version 2 (protocol and authenication) of
> openssh 3.x.x. If it does support, I would like to see some evidences. :)
> 
> I am using putty 0.52.
> 
>  >>identity is for version 1, right? did I mis-interpret the doc?
>  >>Or that the key generation has nothing to do with protocol version?
>  >>when I used identity, I also set my putty to use version 1 protocol.
>  > Hmm.  The latest version I have (3.0.2) uses authorized_keys2.  I have no
>  > clue what putty uses.
>  > It's possible DSA is not supported on Windoze.


My apoligies if I'v missed something in previous utterances of this 
thread.

I just tried putty to an instance of OpenSSH_3.1p1 sshd without hiccups.  
Putty inherently doesn't use keys.  For this pagent's use is required 
also.

Does password authentication work?