I definitely prefer public key authentication in this case. Thanks Bob On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 02:23, J Sloan wrote: > Robert L Cochran wrote: > > >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 > -- Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
