Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 02:21:51 -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: <20011016022151.G293@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20011016103625.007b5320@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>; from mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th on Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:36:25AM %2B0700 References: <3.0.6.32.20011016085640.007d34f0@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> <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> <20011015192946.D293@blossom.cjclark.org> <3.0.6.32.20011016103625.007b5320@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:36:25AM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:
[snip]
> Then I don't know what happened. sshd *was* running when I was still
> running 4.3-STABLE and wasn't yesterday. And I don't understand -- if the
> default line is 'sshd_enable="NO"', how can sshd be running by default?
sysinstall(8) can put 'sshd_enable="YES"' in /etc/rc.conf. Whether it
did it without asking or at you command varies with the version of
FreeBSD. If the FreeBSD installed sshd(8) was running in 4.3-STABLE,
and it is not now, something must have happened to your /etc/rc.conf.
> >> >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.
> >
>
> Aha!
I only has to say it twice. ;)
--
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| cjclark@jhu.edu
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