Re: ssh / putty question

[Balazs Javor <jb3@freemail.hu>]

Hi,

It is possible to download a key generator for PuTTY on their website.
That way the users can generate their own keys on the M$ machine.
The public key still needs to be added to their home directory somehow...
I guess they can mail it to the administrator/you for addition,
but there might be better ways...

Also PuTTY does not work with the SSH2 keys generated by OpenSSH.
You will need to use the once it's own key generator creates.
(I don't remember the reason for this at the moment... Something to do
with different formats or metadata I think.)

I hope this helps.
Cheers,
Balazs 

On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 03:46:44PM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
>I have installed ssh on my server. To be able to login to make a key on my 
>server, I have set PasswordAuthentication to yes, then logged in with Putty, 
>used ssh-keygen, copied my pair over to windoze, added public key to 
>authorized_keys on my home dir on server and it worked.
>
>How would users make a keypair if i had set PasswordAuthentication to no?
>Then they cannot even login to make a pair? What's the proper policy for this?
>My method required me to use the less save password authentication but
>there are probably better ways to do this, no ?
>
>Also, Putty doesn't seem to work (at least here) with type "rsa" keys.
>The first key i made was the default of my ssh version which is rsa1.
>So i did ssh-keygen -t rsa and then also added the key to authorized_keys 
>but when i tried to login with putty, after i filled in my user name, the program 
>closed instead of asking for my passphrase, anybody know why?
>In ssh-> protocol options, i specified "Preferred SSH protocol version" 2 and 
>loaded my private keyfile there id_rsa.
>
>Also, any good sources on the net that explains this opic better, tldp wasn't
>any good.
>
>Thanks for any info