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Date:      Sun, 6 Mar 2005 14:01:10 +0000
From:      "John" <lists@reiteration.net>
To:        mrb@bmyster.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: help configuring ssh pub keys  instead of passwords
Message-ID:  <20050306135813.M24189@reiteration.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050305181134.M99248@bmyster.com>
References:  <20050305181134.M99248@bmyster.com>

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On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:38:39 -0500, Brent wrote

[SNIP]

> 
> i then tried to use the key from a winblows putty ssh client and i 
> get the folowing error when trying to login to the unix box
> 
> Unable to use key file "C:\id_dsa" (OpenSSH SSH2 private key)
> 
> Any help is very appreciated

You need to use puttygen to convert the key from openssh format (id_dsa) to
putty's own format (.ppk)
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