On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 16:48, L. Christopher Luther wrote: > I'm trying to use PuTTY to connect to a RH 8 box using SSH and a > password-less private key file. I have no trouble using PuTTY to connect to > this same server using SSH and password authentication -- it's only when I > use private/public key files. > > I used the puttygen program to generate an RSA public and private key (I > also tried DSA keys), and put the resulting public key file in the RH user's > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. > > The ~/.ssh directory has mode 700 and authorized_keys has mode 644 (I also > tried mode 640). These modes were chosen because I searched the redhat-list > archives and discovered that someone else was receiving "Authentication > refused: bad ownership or modes for ..." messages. > > These messages are now gone, but PuTTY now displays the following messages: > > Using username "user". > Server refused our key > user@myserver's password: > > I launch putty specifying the user name (-l username), private key file (-i > private.ppk), and saved session (-load myserver). Any suggestions or ideas? > > Isn't there a conversion that need to occur to get openssh to use keys generated from other systems? If putty can generate a key in the proper format try running the server in debug mode. you can set the loglevel in sshd_config and restart or stop sshd ans start it manually with sshd -D and it will not detach from the term and you can watch it go. man sshd Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
