ssh public key authentification

[Noel Jones]

On 1/18/07, Christian Baer <christian.baer at uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> The whole thing should be pretty trivial: I created a key using PuTTY,
> copied the public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (everthing in one line),
> chose the private key in PuTTY and tried to log in. All I got in
> response was: "Server refused out key."
>

Did you copy the displayed "Public key for pasting into OpenSSH" from
PuttyGEN, or did you paste the actual contents of the public key?
Putty's on-disk format for public keys is not compatible with OpenSSH.

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Noel Jones