Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:46:20 +0100 (CET) From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ssh public key authentification Message-ID: <eootbs$15r6$2@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> References: <eooa8o$14k0$2@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> <cce506b0701181014h7b5da947l3b601203f79710dc@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:14:34 -0600 Noel Jones wrote: > Did you copy the displayed "Public key for pasting into OpenSSH" from > PuttyGEN, or did you paste the actual contents of the public key? > Putty's on-disk format for public keys is not compatible with OpenSSH. Yeah, I got that right. sshd wants to have the key in one line, while PuTTY-keygen makes several lines out of them. The problem were the homedir permissions (see other post). Regards Chris
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