From owner-freebsd-security Fri Oct 26 8:13:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from va.cs.wm.edu (va.cs.wm.edu [128.239.2.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53CB637B406 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:13:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corona.cs.wm.edu (corona [128.239.2.50]) by va.cs.wm.edu (8.11.4/8.9.1) with ESMTP id f9QFC3q09925 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:12:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from zvezdan@localhost) by corona.cs.wm.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id f9QFDH307775 for security@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:13:17 -0400 Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 11:13:17 -0400 From: Zvezdan Petkovic To: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Putty & SSH Message-ID: <20011026111311.C7631@corona.cs.wm.edu> Mail-Followup-To: security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011026110707.B7631@corona.cs.wm.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011026110707.B7631@corona.cs.wm.edu>; from zvezdan@CS.WM.EDU on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:07:07AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 11:07:07AM -0400, Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:39:52AM -0400, Bill.Melvin@esc.edu wrote: > > > I try to connect from my M$ to a Freebsd Box using Putty via > > > SSH. The keys were produced with the normal procedure > > > under BSD ... > > > > user@fbsdbox $ ssh -V > > SSH Version OpenSSH_2.3.0 ... > > ^^^^^^^ > > > > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html#A.1.2 > > > > Yes, but one can convert the keys in the SECSH Public Key Format using > > ssh-keygen -e private-or-public-OpenSSH-key-file-name >file.pub > > > > Now, will that help putty I've no idea. Ooops! I've just checked that web site more carefully and realised that putty is a beast of a totally different sort. I "like" his explanation that neither OpenSSH not SSH2 formats are particularly pleasant so he uses his own. Does he at least support SECSH proposed standard, in which case my suggestion above might be helpful? Otherwise, bad luck. -- Zvezdan Petkovic http://www.cs.wm.edu/~zvezdan/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message