Has anyone used PuTTY and OpenSSH?

[Gregory Boyce]

I've used the two of them together, but generally with ssh1, not ssh2. 
However, there are a few basic things to look for to get it working.

First, check what version of putty you're running.  It looks like ssh2
key authentication was just introduced in version 0.52 of putty, which
is pretty recent.  Next, make sure that the key you generated is an ssh2
key, and make sure that the server is configured to use ssh2 by default
(or disable ssh1 completely).

SSH can have issues with the protocol order specified by the server and
client.  If you try using an ssh1 key, and the client and server both
specify protocol 2 before 1, it'll never try your key.  It'll probably
do the same thing in the other order as well.

On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 22:08, Bill Horne wrote:
> Thanks for reading this. 
> 
> I'd like to set up ssh mode 2 authentication for incoming ssh requests 
> from a PuTTY client: PuTTY is an ssh client that runs under Win32, and 
> it's my prefered client for that platform.
> 
> I created public and private keys for my server by using the keygen 
> functions of ssh, and tried to get it to accept a logon from a PuTTY 
> client which had keys generated by the PuTTY key generator program,
> but they wouldn't talk to one another.
> 
> If you've used PuTTY with OpenSSY_3.1p1, please tell me how to go 
> about it.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Bill Horne
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