On 20/07/07, Scott Berry <sberry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello there, I am trying to connect to an ssh server on my linux machine via putty on a Windows machine. I followed the instructions and made an authorized_keys2 file and ensured that the permissions were correct with ls -0lr. Here are my permissions: [root@pilotalk .ssh]# ls -lr total 8 -rw------- 1 root root 223 2007-07-20 09:51 authorized_keys2 Now when I connect using my Windows machine to get in to root for my linux server I get the following error coming I assume from the linux server: PuTTY Fatal Error Server unexpectedly closed network connection What would be the most probable causes for this? Everything looks perfect.
On top of other permissions is port 22 firewalled? You may want to try telnet from the Windows machine to port 22 on the Linux one to make sure the way is clear. Also, Putty uses a different key format, and there's one of the Putty tools (Puttygen I think) used to convert the private key from openssh to Putty. I think it warns you of that though. Can you use ssh to get to localhost from the Linux machine? (I.e. telnet to itself.) -- imalone
