Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd

[Andrew DeFaria]

On 01/22/2012 10:21 AM, Len Giambrone wrote:
> I believe that PuTTy is SSH2, while Cygwin is OpenSSH.  You can convert them using
> ssh-keygen:
>
> ssh-keygen -f putty_key -i>  openssh_key
If this is true then it kinda kills the "ease of use" thing. It's hard 
enough trying to tell somebody to use puttygen then save keys, copy and 
paste them, etc. but now tell them "Well log into a Cygwin server and 
run this command line 'cause the two systems talk different" is not 
gonna go over well...

I try to explain to people how getting Putty to do ssh, Reflection X to 
do X11, FireFTP or whatever to do ftp, ActiveState Perl to do Perl, etc. 
is the wrong way to go about putting together a good set of tools when 
you can more simply just get Cygwin to do all of those things and have 
all of those tools play nicely together. Here appears to be yet another 
example...
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
If you talk to god, it's called religion. If god talks to you it's 
called insanity.


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