putty-0.52 and openssh-3.1.0

[Keith Morse]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, M.W.Chang wrote:

> 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."


Glad to hear it worked.  I was going to suggest the puttykeygen route if 
you hadn't got your issue resolved.  FWIW, my understanding is that 
openssh is going to use authorized_keys instead of authorized_keys2 
starting the the version 3.X series.