SSH Keys

[Verde Denim]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 22:28 -0400, Verde Denim wrote:
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> > I have 3 machines in my local network.
> > Machine "A" is a windows laptop
> > Machine "B" is Ubuntu 8.04.1 running Gnome.
> > Machine "C" is Ubuntu server 8.04
> >
> > I generated a keypair on "A" using putty.
> > I copied the public key from "A"  to "C" and created
> > authorized_keys in the /home/jack/.ssh directory.
> > The connection between "A" and "C" works fine.
> > I also copied the public and private keys to "B".
> > When I use ssh -i /home/jack/.ssh/rsa_key.ppk jack at C, the passphrase
> > does not work, so the connection from "B" to "C" cannot be
> > established.
> >
> > Do I need to generate a separate keypair on "B" and add its public key
> > to authorized_keys on "C" ?
>
> Did you export the putty private key to an openssh private key?  The
> private key formats are different.  The puttygen tool can perform the
> export for you.
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Smoot
Thanks. I'll export the openssh private key and copy the public key as-is to
"B" to see if that resolves it.

Jack

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