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22Apr/100

SSH Key Generation With Putty “puttygen”

Before adding public key to the server, do not forget to format it! When you generate public and private key pair, your public key will look like

---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
Comment: "rsa-key-20100421"
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIEAj1PKxItGVPtACMnirqW38KvtF3wHFDIej9UO
bbRzIjTT15QK9Lo35Hsokuxr4voECxlxlbAdNKFWw308gwaTYjxf/Zs9cswstBfI
jWSvoJC2F1/5fUE27nSjgt+chPijROYU0uHn2e0FtN+b9q8kcJzSfNXfvQMetlDd
O62lZAM=
---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----

But you have to paste it to the server as one line only with the key:

ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIEAj1PKxItGVPtACMnirqW38KvtF3wHFDIej9UO
bbRzIjTT15QK9Lo35Hsokuxr4voECxlxlbAdNKFWw308gwaTYjxf/Zs9cswstBfI
jWSvoJC2F1/5fUE27nSjgt+chPijROYU0uHn2e0FtN+b9q8kcJzSfNXfvQMetlDd
O62lZAM=
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