SSH with Public Key Authentication (Was: Re: Attention: Giorgos Keramidas (Was: CVS Import Permissions))

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-02-02 00:57, albi <albi at scii.nl> wrote:
>On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 01:48:37 +0200
>Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
>>> I spent a few hours yesterday trying to get SSH going again. I can
>>> login with SSH from the windows machine using Putty, but only when
>>> I use password authentication. In order to use cvs with ssh (using
>>> the plink program in Putty), we must use public key authentication.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I can't help with the Windows side.  I'm only using
>> UNIX machines as clients, so Putty is something new to me :-(
>
> erhm.. cd /usr/ports/security/putty;make install :-)

Heh!  Well, fancy that...  That's one of the side-effects of having an
SSH client in the base-system, I guess.  Thanks to DES, I never needed
Putty on FreeBSD so far :)