Converting Securecrt private key to unix

From: James Wilde (james.wilde@telia.com.spam.no)
Date: 12/11/01 

From: "James Wilde" <james.wilde@telia.com.spam.no>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:58:04 GMT

We are using SecureCRT 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 to ssh to our unix hosts, which run
OpenSSH 2.9p2 using SSH2 with public and private key pairs. I have
converted everybody's identity.pub files to the form required in
authorized_keys2. So far so good.

It would now be useful to be able to use ssh between the hosts themselves,
as opposed to contacting them all from the Windows box running SecureCRT.
To avoid having to get everybody to create new keys and distribute them all
over the network, I am wondering if there is any way to convert the
SecureCRT private key to unix format, in the way that the public key was
converted.

I have studied the manuals for both SecureCRT and OpenSSH, but just this one
option appears to be excluded. When I try, for example, ssh-keygen -X -f
privatekeyfile > unixformatfile, I get an error message the content of which
I have not noted, but which I have assumed means that this method is not
designed to work.

Help anyone?

TIA 

--

mvh/regards

James

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