Converting keys from commercial ssh
Markus Friedl
markus.friedl at informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Fri Apr 20 03:30:32 EST 2001
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.
you can try
1) a recent PuTTY with SSH 2 and RSA authentication.
2) ssh-keygen -f ssh.com-key -X >> .ssh/authorized_keys2
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