Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:29:46 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't get PuTTY to connect Message-ID: <20011015192946.D293@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20011016085640.007d34f0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>; from mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:56:40AM %2B0700 References: <3.0.6.32.20011015182409.007b6960@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> <3.0.6.32.20011015170134.007b0100@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> <3.0.6.32.20011015170134.007b0100@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> <20011015033737.Q309@blossom.cjclark.org> <3.0.6.32.20011015182409.007b6960@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> <20011015131543.A293@blossom.cjclark.org> <3.0.6.32.20011016085640.007d34f0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:56:40AM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:
> At 01:15 PM 10/15/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 06:24:09PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:
> >
> >[snip]
> >
> >> Turned out sshd wasn't running. I had to configure it and create keyfiles
> >> in /etc/ssh. I hadn't checked before because it was running by default
> >> under 4.3-STABLE and I forgot that 4.4-STABLE has upgraded to OpenSSH 2.9
> >> so sshd is not started by default.
> >
> >sshd(8) runs by default in the same manner in 4.4-STABLE.
> >
>
> ??? Two things. /etc/defaults/rc.conf has 'sshd_enable="NO", which has to
> be changed in /etc/rc.conf, and the daemon won't run unless you have the
> appropriate key files in /etc/ssh, which I didn't.
That line has been in /etc/defaults/rc.conf since Feburary 24,
2000. If the keys do not exist in /etc/ssh, the rc.network script will
create them.
> >If you are logging FROM the PuTTY machine INTO the FreeBSD machine,
> >PuTTY needs a private key, not a public key.
>
> Yes, that's why I said it's not a FreeBSD issue. For some reason PuTTY
> can't read the public key file
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you are logging in FROM PuTTY, you need the _private_ key on that
machine.
> I generated with ssh-keygen on my FreeBSD
> box. At the same time, the key generated by puttygen.exe isn't accepted by
> sshd. Examining the files, the FreeBSD-generated key is all printable
> characters,
The public key is, the private key is not.
> while the file generated by puttygen.exe is all non-printable.
> I don't understand what's going on and have sent a query to the PuTTY web
> site, but it seems like this should be a common problem. Do most people run
> PuTTY in telnet mode?
Nope. A lot of people just use passwords though. I personally never
used RSA keys with PuTTY, but I did use them with TeraTerm and the SSH
extensions to it. No problems between TeraTerm SSH and OpenSSH. I
prefered TeraTerm SSH at the time since it did X11 forwarding.
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| cjclark@jhu.edu
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