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Great to hear that the problem is solved! I've used puttygen before |
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to convert keys (both ways) but when I used it the other day to create |
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a key on windows & convert it wouldn't work. Oh well! |
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On 12/18/08, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 18 December 2008 23:17:13 Mick wrote: |
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>> > The only time I have a problem w/pub/private keys is when |
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>> > I create them on a windows box and try to export it to ssh. The other |
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>> > way around always works for me. |
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>> The MSWindows generated keys will work, either from PuTTY or Cygwin, but |
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>> you have to be careful with hard returns at the end of lines (CR/LF). Use |
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>> Notepad++ to paste your key in and you should find that it works fine. |
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> PuTTY comes with a utility to convert it's keys to openssh format. I insist |
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> my |
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> PuTTY users do this themselves before they send me the public key to be |
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> deployed on the servers. It works well for me - if they get stroppy and |
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> don't |
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> do this, they don't get access <shrug> |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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