Putty Key using it in linux

[Chris Wrobel]

Hi everyone,
I need help connecting to our corporate server using ssh. I got myself a
linux workstation at work where everyone else uses windows, the only thing
I need to get workig is ssh connection to our corporate system. Right now
we use putty in windows in order to loginto the server. I need to find a
way to use the putty ssh key to use it in linux. I'm completely stunned
I've been reading manuals but there is no info how to do that, :( plus I'm
too busy at work to try to get it to work..

I read the sshkey which is named XXX.ppk and it has public and private key
entries, how do i convert it so i can use it in linux. I tried passing -i
option to ssh
ssh -i XXX.ppk hostname

but
chris@local:~$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/XXX.ppk XXX.net
Enter passphrase for key '/home/chris/.ssh/XXX.ppk':
Permission denied (publickey).

I dont know how to get this to work please help otherwise I'll have to
switch back to windows, ;(

Thanks guys

[Olive Esseret]

You can generate an openssh public key from a private putty key: Lauch
puttygen (in the putty directory) then load the private key (File ->
Load) and you will see what you have cut and paste in openssh.

By the way; I don't quite understand what you want: It is considered
unsafe to share the same private key between several machines. You
should generate a private key for your linux machine with ssh-keygen and
add the public key in .ssh/authorized_keys of your server.

Olive

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> Thanks guys

[Simon]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 18:42:41 GMT, Chris Wrobel <wrobe...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> I read the sshkey which is named XXX.ppk and it has public and private key
> entries, how do i convert it so i can use it in linux.

puttygen can convert keys to OpenSSH format.

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