ssh keys - howto?

[Frank Knobbe]

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:28, chip.wiegand at simrad.com wrote:
> Okay, I'm stumped. Just need to get ssh keys working. I have FBSD-5.1 web 
> server with
> sshd running. I have a workstation running W2K with WinSCP3. I have tried 
> Puttygen to 
> create the keys and copied the key to .ssh directory on FBSD, renamed it 
> authorized_keys
> but it don't work. I then ran ssh_keygen on the BSD box, but don't know 
> what to do with the 
> two files it created, there are no instructions about that part in the man 
> file. Does anyone
> have a how-to on settup of ssh between w2k and fbsd?


I'm not aware of a How-To, but you have to create the files on FBSD.
Then copy them to Putty. There should be an option in Putty to convert
the OpenSSH keys to Putty keys. Once converted, they will work.

See the Putty Help files of web site for more info.

Hope this helps,
Frank

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