From: "Robert L Cochran" <cochranb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > 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 have written a small page on SSH - PuTTY - Public/Private key pairs. It may help, http://www.wellsi.com/sme/ssh/ssh.html Ian