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Greetings, Andrew DeFaria!

> On 1/22/2012 10:21 AM, Len Giambrone wrote:
>> I believe that PuTTy is SSH2, while Cygwin is OpenSSH.

PuTTY using it's own format for SSH2 keys. As explained in help file.

>> 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:

You need to read help file. Really-really. All of the chapter 8.2, at the very
least. 
Corinna covered the rest already.


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Andrey Repin (anrdaemon AT freemail DOT ru) 23.01.2012, <14:57>

Sorry for my terrible english...


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