Re: ssh v2 public key identification works and works not

From: Karl Forsberg (invalid@invalidaddress.com)
Date: 02/14/02 

From: Karl Forsberg <invalid@invalidaddress.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 15:21:08 +0100

Simon Tatham wrote:

> Karl Forsberg <kaef@despammed.com> wrote:
>
>>Connecting to A from D(with Windows/putty) or B using ssh v2 and public
>>key does *not* work
>>
>>Is there some bug in the ssh 2.9p2 client which has later been fixed and
>> is this bug "inherited" by putty?
>>
>
> Well, if you were to _tell_ us what PuTTY is doing, we might be able
> to tell you what it's doing wrong! There are any number of ways to
> get public key authentication wrong in all of those situations.
>
> For example: you are aware PuTTY doesn't use the same SSH2 private
> key format as OpenSSH, so you can't just reuse the same key file?
> And have you made sure that PuTTY really is using SSH protocol v2?
> Have you looked at the PuTTY Event Log to see how far the public key
> authentication is getting?
>

I am aware of the format difference. Maybe I should have been more clear
  about that this is foremost a question about why one instance of
openssh works and another does not. Hence I did not go into any details
about putty. If putty is based on (older) openssh sources this would
probably explain why putty also has problems.

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