Public Key Authentication Bug

[Ben Lindstrom]

On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Russell "Elik" Rademacher wrote:

>     I knew for long time that keys generated by puttygen is problemetic
> at most.  I usually have the keys generated where the host server is
> located and set the public keys in the .ssh/authorized_keys file.
>

>     With that, I did use the RSA1 and DSA Keys and didn't have any problems with
> them using the OpenSSH 3.1p1 version, which is before the 3.3p1 appeared.  I
> haven't tried the RSA SSH2 key on it yet, but I am not sure if it got problems
> with it or not.
>

I don't use DSA keys, but putty 0.52 (last blessed release) does not
support using OpenSSH or SSH Corp keys first off..

Second off no matter what server I used with RSA (v2) from putty (snapshot
as of tonight) I get:

Unable to use key file "C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\id_rsa" (OpenSSH SSH2 private
key)


And no hint that it was even tried.  I'm doing this to 3.1pX and --current
on OpenBSD.

Are you sure putty has working support for ssh keys from anything but
their generator?

- Ben