From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 18 22:46:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5915116A416 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:46:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from mx1.netclusive.de (mx1.netclusive.de [89.110.132.131]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CEDC13C44B for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:46:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net) Received: from nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (p3EE21983.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [62.226.25.131]) by mx1.netclusive.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 102A3DE8254 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:46:21 +0100 (CET) Received: by nermal.rz1.convenimus.net (Postfix, from userid 8) id 5824E15213; Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:46:20 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: Christian Baer Newsgroups: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:46:20 +0100 (CET) Organization: Convenimus Projekt Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: garfield.rz1.convenimus.net X-Trace: nermal.rz1.convenimus.net 1169160380 38758 192.168.100.11 (18 Jan 2007 22:46:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@convenimus.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:46:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Subject: Re: ssh public key authentification X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:46:22 -0000 On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:14:34 -0600 Noel Jones wrote: > 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. Yeah, I got that right. sshd wants to have the key in one line, while PuTTY-keygen makes several lines out of them. The problem were the homedir permissions (see other post). Regards Chris