Using PuTTY to SSH and authenticate with keys

[Man-wai Chang]

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.

I recommend you to use `ssh-keygen -t rsa` of openssh on the linux to 
generate the private+public key, then copy the private key id_rsa to 
Window$ and use putty-keygen to convert it to putty format. Start putty 
with the converted private key to login linux.

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