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PUTTY SSH PUBLIC KEY HOW TO

I see nothing else in any of the /var/log files of use. The only remaining nibble of information I have is that it claims I have the alleged password wrong: sshd: Failed password for zzzzzzz from zz.zz.zz.zz port 53620 ssh2Įven so, as far as I can tell, this is just a lazy try/catch somewhere, since I don't think there's a password involved at all. After this keyfile stuff fails, I can enter my password instead I've tried both authorized_keys and authorized_keys2 in case the server has an old version of OpenSSH, but this changed nothing.I had to solve this too and I know it got past this because I no longer see a related error in /var/log/auth.log.

The permissions were at once point wrong as well, specifically meaning that the file had too many permissions.

Even so, I have no way to verify accuracy here. I've also tried the public file doctoring process a few times to ensure that I haven't flubbed up the manual conversion. The key is all on a single line now, and I have tried adding/removing line breaks at the end of the file. However, since I am not yet connected, I cannot absolutely confirm that this file is in the correct format. I have corrected this (as seen on this blog post).

Putty generated the public key in the "wrong format".

I have run into the more common problems already: This is connecting to an Ubuntu server that is using OpenSSH.

Next, Log in to the Linux server and change to the home directory with the cd command: Then, create the. Highlight the Public key that was created in the text box and copy it to the clipboard.

PUTTY SSH PUBLIC KEY HOW TO

I spent about 3 hours trying to figure out how to connect to a linux box from my windows machine using putty without having to send the password. To solve the 'server refused our key' error, you can do the following steps: Open PuTTYgen, Go to File > Load Private key and open your Private Key File.