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Old 7th June 2009
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Default ssh and PuTTY Configuration

I'm trying to configure PuTTY . . .running on a Windoze box to connect to FreeBSD. The PuTTY Configuration asks for a "Private key file for authentication", for example, E:\user\XYZ\ssh\id_rsa . . .simply a path to a file on the Windoze box.

Given the contents of the .\id_rsa file similar as follows (I've intentionally omitted and altered data for this example):

-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: DES-EDE3-CBC,0973EX1F93B72DF7

CZq9VSOMwM1bGg3oqH5mOSSxDfH26sGKe12HOBgrew92EUyRfP QcqNbkuynH3P7z
l/X9sox6fIo1puIf5jK/aGkTpwQHyyxGHFodHPGiokjJa5f8FRpuPfVkN+y837Pr
(lines omitted here)
bsi55+lRoUGW7OXVPCiwdKmrwU9xqj/3kZtA5u6r1UpkGBjjLVMdH8QdxYaIIFgG
178SSrx8RvOdoKTiuByY4VLCE1RPG9om2F3uUGBo4+38+c9IUs KtHQ==

-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----


. . .I don't know exactly what the PuTTY system is looking for ...just that it's not connecting. Should the id_rsa file in the Windoze directory be edited to include only the key string as I've indicated in red, or include the Proc-Type and DEK-Info strings, too. Additionally, should the line feeds at the end of each line in the key string be removed?

Thanks,
RW
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Old 7th June 2009
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The key format used by PuTTY is not compatible with OpenSSH. PuTTY has an utility to do the conversion.
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I found a PuTTY home site with extensive documentation. I'll read-up.

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You need the PuTTY Keygen tool. Import the OpenSSH key into there, then export out the .ppk file. The .ppk (putty private key) file is the one that you use in PuTTY.
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Here are a few resources that I've found useful:

PuTTY Users Manual: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/
PuTTY Download Page: http://chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtat.../download.html
An Example: http://linux-sxs.org/networking/openssh.putty.html
I've downloaded puttygen.exe and apparently it successfully converted the results of $ ssh-keygen -b 1024 -t rsa .

Regardless, I still cannot get the PuTTY session to negociate with the (restarted) sshd. The PuTTY log on the Windoze box as follows:

=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~= PuTTY log 2009.06.08 16:32:11 =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=
Event Log: Appending session log (SSH packets mode) to file: E:\user\RTW\.ssh\putty.log
Event Log: Looking up host "66.138.104.73"
Event Log: Connecting to 66.138.104.73 port 22
Event Log: Network error: Connection timed out
Apparently from what I've read, the (FreeBSD) server is not responding, acknowledging, or negotiating with the Windoze client.

I've just about run out of ideas. I've attached the sshd_config file.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Ron W.
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