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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>
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Subject: Re: ssh public key authentification
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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