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From: Len Giambrone <Len DOT Giambrone AT intersystems DOT com>
To: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:45:16 +0000
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Well, try adding the key to authorized_keys on a box where you have ssh working and see if it works.
If not, you know you have a key problem.  If so, you know you have a permissions problem.

-Len




On Jan 23, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Andrew DeFaria wrote:

> On 1/23/2012 11:59 AM, Len Giambrone wrote:
>> That looks like an SSH2 key, not an OpenSSH key.
>> 
>> I downloaded puttygen to see exactly what you see.
>> And after you load a key (generate one) right at the top it says:
>> 
>> Public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys file:
>> _key here_
>> 
>> 
>> For example, here is what it says for the key I just generated:
>> ssh-dss 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 dsa-key-20120123
>> 
>> THIS is what your OpenSSH public key should look like.
> I agree 100%. And I did that - to start with, and did it again many times to verify it, etc. Problem is it constantly fails.
> 
> I think the problem is really one of permissions, not the appropriate key. Seem ssh to local host even prompts me.
> -- 
> Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
> An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. - Mohandas Gandhi
> 
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