SSH Keys

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 22:28 -0400, Verde Denim wrote:
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> I have 3 machines in my local network.
> Machine "A" is a windows laptop
> Machine "B" is Ubuntu 8.04.1 running Gnome.
> Machine "C" is Ubuntu server 8.04
> 
> I generated a keypair on "A" using putty. 
> I copied the public key from "A"  to "C" and created
> authorized_keys in the /home/jack/.ssh directory.
> The connection between "A" and "C" works fine.
> I also copied the public and private keys to "B".
> When I use ssh -i /home/jack/.ssh/rsa_key.ppk jack at C, the passphrase
> does not work, so the connection from "B" to "C" cannot be
> established.
> 
> Do I need to generate a separate keypair on "B" and add its public key
> to authorized_keys on "C" ?

Did you export the putty private key to an openssh private key?  The
private key formats are different.  The puttygen tool can perform the
export for you.
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Smoot Carl-Mitchell
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