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Alternatively if you want to grab the private and public keys from a PuTTY formated key file you can use puttygen on *nix systems. For most apt-based systems puttygen is part of the putty-tools package. Outputting a private key from a PuTTY formated keyfile: $ puttygen keyfile.pem -O private-openssh -o avdev.pvk. For the public key:
75. TLDR: Just skip the step 2: Under Type of key to generate, choose RSA. If you're using an older version of PuTTYgen, choose SSH-2 RSA. The AWS documentation is wrong here. To convert an existing private key file (pem to ppk) in PuTTYgen, you do not need to select key type. PuTTYgen will automatically detect key type from the private key file.
Is it possible to use Putty Key Generator via command line interface? I cannot find any documentation. Any pointers? Btw, I only want to generate a openssh formatted key pair on a windows machine.
use this command: ssh-keygen -p -P "<old pass phrase>" -N "<new pass phrase>" -m PEM -f id_rsa to convert the key to putty acceptable format; Open PuttyGen and from the top menu select Convertions and then Import key (you will be prompted for the passphrase here, enter it if you provided one on key generation and click ok)
Then click on "Environment Variables") GIT_SSH=%path_to_plink.exe% (Note plink.exe goes into wherever you installed Putty) Generate a ssh key using puttygen.exe (ssh2-rsa, 4096, comment=GitLab, and set a passphrase) Add key to pageant.exe and the public key to your GitLab profile. Ensure you start a new command shell so that git recognizes the ...
1. the reason why you use puttygen is to generate the ssh-key pair especially on windows systems. You don't generally need to use putty key generator on mac since Mac OS has a built-in command-line SSH client known as Terminal. To use terminal, go to Finder and then click the menus Go -> utilities from the top menu.
If you have your OpenSSH Private Key (id_rsa file), you can generate the OpenSSH Public Key File using: ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -y > ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub If you only have the PUTTY Private Key (id_rsa.ppk file), you will need to convert it first. Open the PuTTY Key Generator; On the menu bar, click "File" > "Load private key" Select your id ...
Open puttyGen -> Go to Key Section -> over your mouse on a key section before that press "Generate" button. Download Public key and private key and copy text from key section and paste into GitLab. Open puttygen -> load ppk file -> Select conversions menu -> Export OpenSSH key. To save file at {home}/.ssh and give file name "id_rsa" -> Save it.
Fire up puttygen and check out the Conversions tab--neither says ".pub format", but my guess is the OpenSSH or ssh.com format is the one--you will just have to try them both and see what works. You can also go the other route and have the key generated on the remote system and try importing the private key into your Putty key chain.
Here are some steps that are not at all clear when copy/pasting your public key. (For the record, I used Putty Key Generator for my keys.) On the first line, enter ssh-rsa. Make sure you add one space after ssh-rsa; When you copy/paste the key into the Key textbox it should preserve the \n characters (x0A).