On Tue Apr 18, 2023 at 4:07 PM CDT, wrote:

Hi, Puttygen makes pairs of keys, but tilde does not accept it. Anyone uses it?

PuTTYgen has the ability to export OpenSSH keys iirc. The format that PuTTY(gen) uses is not compatible with most (all?) *NIX systems, so you must first convert the public/private key pair into OpenSSH formatted keys.

--ngp

On 4/18/2023 5:07 PM, jazei@tilde.team wrote:

Hi, Puttygen makes pairs of keys, but tilde does not accept it. Anyone uses it?

I do.   Using Windows 7 and putty, here.    Have done so, for a long time now.

We are talking about ssh to :     tilde.team        correct?   ( 198.50.210.248   ) I can log into the shell, using putty and a key pair.   Just tried it.   Works fine.

This:   "...but tilde does not accept it.  ... "        sort of rang a bell.     So I went and tested something that came to mind.

I still have Putty version 0.60  handy.    So I tried it. Fails. Server rejects the login attempt with some error message. Next, I tried Putty version 0.73 .     Fails.    Different error message, but is rejected by the server and fails, nevertheless.

Above, when I said that I can log into the shell using Putty and keys, with no problem,   that was when using Putty 0.77 .

So - I'm wondering if you by chance might be using an old version of Putty ?

I hope this helps. Luck on you! 😄