Converting keys from commercial ssh

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:44:04PM -0300, 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.

OpenSSH is available as Windows client and server using the Cygwin
POSIX emulation layer. Look into http://cygwin.com. The net distro
of Cygwin contains OpenSSH-2.5.2p2.

Hope, that helps,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.
mailto:vinschen at redhat.com