Re: Putty publickey connection to OpenSSH failing

From: Jonathan (jonathanNOFISH@sprintmail.com)
Date: 04/22/03 

From: "Jonathan" <jonathanNOFISH@sprintmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 15:08:56 -0400

I have used public key authentication using Putty/Pageant to OpenSSH servers
no problem, so this should work for you.

I don't know the root of your specific problem, but since you're running an
OpenSSH that's ~3 years old, I would dump it and update to the latest
(3.6.1p1). There have been a lot of features and bugfixes since 2.1.1!!

good luck...
Jonathan

"Lee Meeker" <lee.meeker@acm.org> wrote in message
news:b80qo6$3rb$1@news01.intel.com...
> I've tried several things to get public/private key authorization working
> with Putty. I'm trying to connect with Putty 0.53b on a Windows 2000
laptop
> to a Redhat 7.0 server running OpenSSH (openssh-server-2.1.1p4-1). I know
> the keys are good since I can use them with ssh through cygwin to get to
the
> server, but putty just doesn't seem to want to work. I've also tried
several
> of Putty's SSH "bug auto/on/off" settings. Does anyone know of a problem
> with this setup? See the output below for details...
>
> Thanks for any insight,
>
> Lee Meeker
>
>
>
>
>
> Looking up host "server"
>
> Connecting to x.x.x.x port 22
>
> Server version: SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_2.1.1
>
> We claim version: SSH-2.0-PuTTY-Release-0.53b
>
> Using SSH protocol version 2
>
> Doing Diffie-Hellman key exchange
>
> Host key fingerprint is:
>
> ssh-dss 1024 9f:bc:16:0b:1e:12:40:db:cf:30:ac:e7:d8:03:e3:4f
>
> Using username "username".
>
> Reading private key file "putty_id_dsa.PPK"
>
> Offered public key
>
> Offer of public key accepted
>
> Authenticating with public key "imported-openssh-key"
>
> Passphrase for key "imported-openssh-key":
>
> Access denied
>
> Access denied
>
> username@server's password:
>
>
>
>
>

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