I downloaded and installed puTTY on a Windows XP box and I'm having difficulty getting it to authenticate using the puTTY RSA keys that I generated. I understand the puTTY documentation to say that the public key generated by puTTY has to be put in the server, namely that login account's .ssh/authorized_keys2 file. This is on a Red Hat 9 box with openssh-3.5p1-6.
I get an error message "server refused our key" when I attempt to login. I can authenticate with the account password and have a successful session. I'd like public key authentication to work. Am I missing a configuration step here?
You may have bungled the key, but did you have a reason not to just use login/password?
Joe
