Putty and pre-shared keys with Cygwin's sshd

[Andrew DeFaria]

On 1/21/2012 4:39 AM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> What key type you generate? How do you save both parts of the key? You 
> said you copied public key, did you saved private key as well? Or you 
> just assumed it was saved somewhere automatically? -- WBR, Andrey 
> Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 21.01.2012, <16:36> Sorry for my 
> terrible english... 
OK, here's what I did now:

  * Regenerated a SSH-2 DSA key 1024 bit
  * Saved the public and private keys
  * Copied the public key from the box in puttygen that says "Public key
    for the pasting into authorized-keys file" and pasted it into my
    machine's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
  * Ran putty on the remote machine and made sure to point the
    Connection: SSH: Auth pointed to the private key I saved from
    puttygen (a .ppk file).

Attempted to connect with that and I got:

Using username "adefaria"
Server refused our key
adefaria@ltsdo-adefaria's password:

What did I do wrong?
-- 
Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.


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