Re: [Dfey-nw-discuss] Dogfish

[Isabell Long]

On 18/07/2009, Tim Dobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> To generate a SSH key using PuTTY on Windows:
>
> 0. Download and install the PuTTY suite of OpenSSH tools from
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/sgtatham/putty/download.html
> 1. Run “PUTTYGEN.EXE”
> 2. Select “SSH2 DSA” in the “Parameters” section
> 3. Click “Generate”
> 4. Move the mouse over the blank area of the program until puttygen has
> enough entropy
> 5. Click “Save private key” button and save the private key as
> “DfeyDogfish.ppk”
> 6. Copy the “Public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys2 file”
> data email it to address@hidden
>
> When I have your public key, I’ll copy it to the your user’s
> /.ssh/authorized_keys on your machine, and you’ll then be able to log in
> over ssh as root from any Unix machine with your private key in
> /.ssh/id_dsa or on a Windows machine with a PuTTY ‘saved session’
> configured to use the Private Key that you saved.
>
> If you’re curious about all this, the PuTTY documentation at
> http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.55/htmldoc/Chapter8.html is
> excellent, as is the http://www.openssh.org/ site.
>
> Also I recommend using OpenSSH for file transfer as well as remote
> login, instead of insecure legacy protocols like FTP.

Thanks a lot.  One question:  Should I create the key now on Windows,
or wait until I get Linux on my desktop again once in England?  That
is my choice, but what I mean is if I create the key now, will I be
able to use the same one on a different machine running Linux if I
create it in Windows on my laptop, or will I have to create another
one and confuse the issue?

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Regards,
Isabell Long.  <address@hidden>
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