(OT) secure web updates from Windows

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005, Fairlight wrote:
>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?

The first thing is that I got puttygen.exe on a Windows 98 machine this
afternoon.  When I saved the public key, openssh didn't like it for some
reason.  I may have been a bit confused as puttygen doesn't just create key
pair files as ssh-keygen does, but wants to save each separately.

Is there an openssh for Windows supporting sftp?

Bill
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