Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 19:40:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Jason Taylor <jason@kanda.com> To: Mike Dewhirst <Dewhirst.M@UCLES.org.uk> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ssh public key authentication (through putty) Message-ID: <20020218192547.U74394-100000@uk2.kanda-systems.net> In-Reply-To: <0B0368CED76DD4118E1200D0B73E9B5D02AFD067@MAIL1>
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On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Mike Dewhirst wrote: > it was 611, changed it to 600, no result. > > Some specific questions: > > 1. what should the name of the keys file be if I'm using OpenSSH 2.3.0? > 2. do I need anything else in the "config" file in my .ssh dir, on top of > "RSAAuthentication yes" and "PasswordAuthentication yes"? I've never needed to put a config file in my ~/.ssh directory, the FreeBSD/OpenSSH defaults have always been fine. > 3. I am specifying a user under putty's Connection-->Auto-login username > option, is this the right thing to do? Yes, putty needs to tell the remote system who you are logging in as. > 4. Does it matter that the client is behind a firewall? If you can connect through putty using SSH with passwords then the firewall will not cause any problems. > I've been battling with this for about a month now, any help will be greatly > appreciated. These are the steps I just took to get Open SSH (OpenSSH_2.9 FreeBSD localisations 20011202, SSH protocols 1.5/2.0, OpenSSL 0x0090601f) Working with putty. I downloaded the latest release of putty from the putty website. (0.52 - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) 1. Create a key using puttygen A) Set to SSH2 DSA (1024 bit) B) Hit Generate C) Enter a passphrasse D) Select & Copy all text from "Public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys2 file" E) Paste into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 (being carefull to check line wrapping) F) Save private / public keys onto the local windows PC. 2. Configure Putty Session->Hostname = remote host Session->Protocol = SSH Connection->Auto-login username = YOUR REMOTE USERNAME Connection->SSH->Preferred SSH Protocol Version = 2 Connection->SSH->Auth->Private key file for authentication = YOUR PRIVATE KEY Then hit open. This works fine from here. Jason. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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