X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: How to use ssh.exe from Windows XP? Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 20:06:36 -0800 Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Tawfik, Sameh E wrote: > Puttygen > > Run puttygen.exe to convert the "id_dsa" file to a putty format. This > is because the private key file format is not specified by some > standard body. To do this open "puttygen" and open the "conversions" > menu and chose "Import Key" file. Then browse to the "id_dsa" file, > and select "SSH-2 DSA" field. Finally click "Save private key" and > save the file as "id_dsa.PPK" somewhere on disk. > (PuTTYgen is an RSA and DSA key generation utility) Why the putty stuff? Just use Cygwin's ssh! Just copy the ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub file into your Cygwin .ssh/authorized_keys file. (Use ssh-user-config to generate keys). No extra application (putty) required. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/