Questions tagged [puttygen]

Is there a way to convert existing pair of OpenSSH keys to the SSH2 (ssh.com format) pair of keys? UPD: since there are some answers about ssh-keygen suddenly appeared, I'll explain where I came from (also it will be a nice answer on "what have you…

I was trying to set up a simple backup script to run automatically that would copy a file from a Windows machine to a Linux one through SSH. As a lot of simple online tutorials suggest I used pscp with a private key generated with puttygen and…

I'm trying to install puttygen on an Amazon Linux server. puttygen is provided by the putty package available in EPEL, but installation fails with it unable to find several required C libraries: Error: Package: putty-0.63-7.el6.x86_64 (epel) …

I use PuTTY, and I use a key generated with PuTTYgen. My server is a VPS running Ubuntu 14.04 (perhaps this belongs on askubuntu, but I think it may not be Ubuntu specific). The public portion of the key is in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on my server…