Windows-to-linux: Putty with SSH and private/public key pair
- by Johnny Kauffman
I spent about 3 hours trying to figure out how to connect to a linux box from my windows machine using putty without having to send the password.
This is connecting to an Ubuntu server that is using OpenSSH. The private key is SSH-2 RSA, 1024 bits. I am connecting using SSH2.
I have run into the more common problems already:
Putty generated the…