On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 09:15:00PM -0500, Ian Hendershot wrote: > >This is probably a really dumb question but > >Do I generate a key with puTTY.exe > >under SSH-->auth-->Private key file for authentication? > >If so can I use any type of file? > > I've been using PuTTy without a key for more than a year. When I first > started using PuTTy, it did not support using a key. Later, when tht > support was added, I didn't see any reason to use a key. > > I use PuTTy with ssh2 and blowfish. It works fine.
In one of the environments that I help manage, the only authentication method allowed is ssh key pair. For putty you'll need to use puttygen to generate the key. Then you can use pagent to manage your keys on the fly. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
