X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:47:09 -0800 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <1910391597.20120121163937@mtu-net.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111220 Thunderbird/9.0 In-Reply-To: <1910391597.20120121163937@mtu-net.ru> X-Stationery: 0.7.7 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 On 01/21/2012 04:39 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: >> http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.58/htmldoc/Chapter8.html#pubkey >> states >> to basically use PuttyGen to generate the key then copy and paste it >> into your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. I do that but when I try to ssh >> in from a remote system using Putty I keep getting prompted for a >> password. Does anybody know how to fix/configure this? > You didn't said anything to help you. Actually I was expecting help from you! ;-) > What key type you generate? I tried them all. > How do you save both parts of the key? Didn't think I had to. IIRC there was a save button. I clicked on that and saved whatever it saved. I don't recall it saying what part it would save. > You said you copied public key, did you saved private key as well? > Or you just assumed it was saved somewhere automatically? Yes I did assume it would save it somewhere. If you use ssh-keygen it does save it somewhere (~/.ssh by default). As I said, I don't use putty so I have no idea how it works. Where am I supposed to save it? How does putty then later find it and use it? -- Andrew DeFaria Animal testing is a bad idea - they get nervous and give the wrong answers. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple