putty-0.52 and openssh-3.1.0

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


it worked, but it's better you generate the private key using
puttygen.exe, then cut-and-paste the public key on in the textbox into
authorized_keys2.

Maybe we should update the ssh how-to in sxs.
btw, someone wrote a ssh key how-to. 

"M.W.Chang" wrote:
> 
> 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."



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