ssh public key authentification

[Christian Baer]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:14:34 -0600 Noel Jones wrote:

> Did you copy the displayed "Public key for pasting into OpenSSH" from
> PuttyGEN, or did you paste the actual contents of the public key?
> Putty's on-disk format for public keys is not compatible with OpenSSH.

Yeah, I got that right. sshd wants to have the key in one line, while
PuTTY-keygen makes several lines out of them.

The problem were the homedir permissions (see other post).

Regards
Chris