openssh with puttygen'ed keys problem

From: ordimus (williammbradley@msn.com)
Date: 10/03/02 

From: williammbradley@msn.com (ordimus)
Date: 3 Oct 2002 07:14:21 -0700

Hi,

I have a linux server with openssh. I generated my SSH2 keypairs with
puttygen. I catted the public key into the
$HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file. I added the private key to pageant
and then connect to the openssh linux server from windows using PuTTY
, no problem.

However, when I try and use the same private key from a linux box with
"ssh -i private.key user@host". ssh wont accept the passphrase for my
key. When i throw in a -v i get ....
Enter passphrase for key 'private.key':
debug1: PEM_read_PrivateKey failed
debug1: read PEM private key done: type <unknown>

any ideas......

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