Converting keys from commercial ssh

[Austin Gonyou]

Pretty nifty!

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Austin Gonyou
Systems Architect
Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-796-9023
email: austin at coremetrics.com

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, King, Brian wrote:

> I'm not sure if this is useful to anyone else, but around here people
> are insisting we use key-ed authentication with windows clients and Unix
> servers over SSH protocol version 2.
>
> I couldn't find a free windows client that would meet those
> requirements. The closest was PuTTY, but it would only use password
> authentication with SSH2. In the end, this means we will probably have
> to go with OpenSSH on the servers, and ssh.com's client on the windows
> workstations. The problem that appears then is the differing public key
> file formats between the commercial SSH and OpenSSH.
>
> I've quickly put together a short script that should convert a public
> key (generated by the commercial windows client and pushed to a Unix
> server) to be used with OpenSSH's sshd.  It appears to work fine with
> the limited testing I've done. If anyone decides to make improvements, I
> would appreciate receiving them.
>
> Brian King
>
> <<ssh-convkeys2.sh>>
>
>