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Date:      Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:28:12 +0200
From:      Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>
To:        Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using putty as a ssh client on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <33B6029E-4B52-43D1-A086-AF4F7BA618DC@lassitu.de>
In-Reply-To: <200608091013.32205.josh@tcbug.org>
References:  <200608091013.32205.josh@tcbug.org>

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Am 09.08.2006 um 17:13 schrieb Josh Paetzel:

> I'm trying to use putty on my FBSD 6.1-R box to access another FreeBSD
> box.  I can get in fine using the command line ssh client but when I
> attempt to use putty I get the following error:
>
> Unable to use key file "/usr/home/jpaetzel/.ssh/id_rsa" (OpenSSH SSH-2
> private key)

PuTTY does not support OpenSSH key file formats. You will need to  
convert them to PuTTY format with PuTTYgen.


Stefan

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