(OT) secure web updates from Windows

[Fairlight]

Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Bill Campbell done said:
> 
> We do not allow password authentication using ssh since I've had
> problems with dictionary attacks on bad user passwords permitting
> ssh access to user's directorys where an IRC ``bot'' is run.

Don't you tune the password strength checking in PAM?

> I've played a bit with puttygen to generate public/private key
> pairs, but haven't found the magic incantations that openssh-3.9p1
> likes using putty (and I don't know that putty handles file
> uploads in any case).
> 
> Any suggestions from folks who have to put up with Windows?

I use PuTTY 0.56 (and have used it for years) with openssh dating back far
before 3.9.  I'm on a 3.9p1 system from win95 with 0.56 as I type this.  It
works fine.

I just used putty-keygen and omitted the passphrase, then uploaded the
public key and placed it in authorized_hosts.

What, specifically, doesn't work?

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