Using Your Keys in Windows

Filed under: Technical References

Posted: March 7, 2009

You will need puttyGen to make your key in Windows.

You may either:

Transport the key: Using scp copy ~/.ssh/id_rsa to your Windows machine.

Or

Make the key:

  1. Run the puttyGen program
  2. Hit “Load”
  3. Set to “All Files(*.*)”
  4. Navigate to the id_rsa file you transphered over before and select the file
  5. Hit “Open”
  6. Enter the passphrase that you used before
  7. Hit “Save private key”

You now have a key on your local Windows machine.

To use that key:

  1. Run PuTTy
  2. Load your saved session to the CS server
  3. In the bar to your left go to Connection->SSH->Auth, and browse to the .ppk file you made when you saved the private key.
  4. Now resave your Session to the CS servers and connect

You should see:

login as: auser
LONDON.cs.uri.edu
Authenticating with public key “imported-openssh-key”
Passphrase for key “imported-openssh-key”:
Last login: Thu Apr 13 03:24:27 2006 from ….
CSC412 students do not leave the Bochs emulator running!
Please remember to kill your vnc sessions with
vncserver -kill :
when you are finished with them.
Problems? mailto:sysstaff@cs.uri.edu
Have a nice day!
auser@london ~ $