X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:00:07 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd Message-ID: <20120124100007.GK2456@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1910391597.20120121163937@mtu-net.ru> <1326199340.20120122003455@mtu-net.ru> <1838817585.20120122072825@mtu-net.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) 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 Jan 22 16:30, Andrew DeFaria wrote: > On 1/22/2012 10:21 AM, Len Giambrone wrote: > >I believe that PuTTy is SSH2, while Cygwin is OpenSSH. You can convert them using > >ssh-keygen: > > > >ssh-keygen -f putty_key -i> openssh_key > I tried this. It didn't work. Same error as before. > > Read 8.2.12 of the Putty help file - had no idea there was a format > difference I had to do anything about! Tried what it said to do, use > Conversions: Export to OpenSSH. But that key looks like: > > Ltsdo-adefaria:more /tmp/sshkey > -----BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY----- > MIIBuwIBAAKBgQDI+RkFLTib52+4+OzI+035r8fIConadaJuXNd+ZRSOvoLJar44 > 1m7jgSnp2A52LJ8LJeC99c7NQ1BBoHueRkgBWReH7orWH2T/vlFrPRgIU48vvgPH > 4OrLFRtmN/uYj/BTbWFilN2jFZiiESSr4pSOPNNSblqj+UYXfFxc2ZrhIQIVANFm > lV9qPmupo+/ZQqw1uTRypqve98yI2ZbXTuwIFLAps2T4rQKjmgmfghNWgmUEP0Sm > V8qEfW8JvSh773fwYgtsAfos/+GPqc7V+UysKT2Na+5sOgqALSX6yfLBi0xAA2Iy > ToRtrHupAoGAOS7f1yopMnELx7GhAtEtREN1zDikwa8dVhilM1M38+eZH4Z0Wd/3 > H9W2iKKYjgj8lIIYGiXUxjEWhA3n/3N6HDT0O5X97Pp+dM7oHlAaKtGl0Y9ao+Zn > SmXSquCsokL+1mh1baIe+VcyV2EA7Uat/B0zIlGpwfq4bQv0DmCjl4gCFDBh6pvn > ckhR34s8s2jaQnkdgv+p > -----END DSA PRIVATE KEY----- Btw., you are aware that you should delete this key pair, aren't you? With this mail you published the private key part, which means, everybody can use this key to login to your machine, provided the public counterpart is stored in the authorized_keys file. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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