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Date:      Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:14:34 -0600
From:      "Noel Jones" <noeldude@gmail.com>
To:        "Christian Baer" <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ssh public key authentification
Message-ID:  <cce506b0701181014h7b5da947l3b601203f79710dc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <eooa8o$14k0$2@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net>
References:  <eooa8o$14k0$2@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net>

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On 1/18/07, Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> The whole thing should be pretty trivial: I created a key using PuTTY,
> copied the public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys (everthing in one line),
> chose the private key in PuTTY and tried to log in. All I got in
> response was: "Server refused out key."
>

Did you copy the displayed "Public key for pasting into OpenSSH" from
PuttyGEN, or did you paste the actual contents of the public key?
Putty's on-disk format for public keys is not compatible with OpenSSH.

-- 
Noel Jones



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