Using PuTTY to SSH and authenticate with keys

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Brad De Vries wrote:
> Hey all, I'm trying to setup PuTTY (version 0.58) on a WinXP box and
> SSH into my Red Hat 9.0 server (openssh-server-3.5p1-11).  A simple
> SSH seems to work fine but I'd like to get to the next level where I
> can authenticate with keys rather than being prompted for a password.
>
> 1) Using PuTTYGen, I generated public and private keys with a passphrase.
>
> 2) I started Pageant (PuTTY Authentication Agent), imported my private
> key and entered the passphrase from #1.
>
> 3) Copied the public key file to the RH server ~/.ssh/authorized_keys,
> ripped out all comments and put the data on one line.
>
> 4) Created a PuTTY session with the following settings:
>   a) auto-login username (on the Connection | Data screen)
>   b) turned on the "allow agent forwarding" and specified my private
> key (on the Connection | SSH | Auth screen)
>
> 5) Tried to login.
>
> Sadly, it still prompts for my password and I see nothing in the log
> about it trying to authenticate with the keys.
>
> Obviously I'm missing something or not understanding something
> correctly, so any suggestions would be welcome.

getting ssh keys to work on windows is nothing short of one of the rings
of hell.  good luck.

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