putty-0.52 and openssh-3.1.0

M.W.Chang mwchang
Mon May 17 11:28:55 PDT 2004


I was right. I scanned comp.security.ssh and found one user saying this:

"... You must generate your keys with puttykeygen : Putty doesn't handle
private keys generated with openssh or ssh.com. I had the same problem. 
Now, it works perfectly."

M.W.Chang wrote:
> I did a little bit of reading on the changes.log from putty-0.52.
> Semes that I needed to use puttygen.exe to make the keys,
> that it could not understand the ssh-keygen of openssh-3.1 for version 2 
> keys.
> 
> Will try it this evening...
> 
> Keith Morse wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> 




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