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Mahesh Acharya - 2008-12-17 12:00:06 - i was trying to connect to remote linux server from my window machine. I used putty and wanted to use public-private key pair. It's written that the public key is single-line. But the key that putty generates has multtiple line. It also has comments. Should i add all these multiple lines in the remote authorizedkeys or select only one line and append .
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You probably refer to saved to file public key, for example:
---- BEGIN SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
Comment: "key-comment"
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIEAoE1v9B7BWPeL88glRzCqgsBsqn/dMeY/C6b+
uFRQps/y3tKQgQ7Ajaaaaaaaaaa2JlWkEx1kVfhdy7srUMDPnpdUByaY+1079p96
ftYbxHhipWO0OWb3DV64keMQQ0IttFd2cjDv7uQFlRGyb7FTyeqykWTqMIiZDQ5W
1vPJkx8=
---- END SSH2 PUBLIC KEY ----
Well the key format of authorized_keys consists of 3 parts, for example:
ssh-rsa some-very-long-string key-comment
You must add those 3 values on a single line in authorized_keys file, no matter if you got them on separate lines. So just concatenate all lines containing letters and digits to form some-very-long-string part and add the comment to the end. You'll et something like:
ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAIEAoE1v9B7BWPeL88glRzCqgsBsqn/dMeY/C6b+uFRQps/y3tKQgQ7Ajaaaaaaaaaa2JlWkEx1kVfhdy7srUMDPnpdUByaY+1079p96ftYbxHhipWO0OWb3DV64keMQQ0IttFd2cjDv7uQFlRGyb7FTyeqykWTqMIiZDQ5W1vPJkx8= key-comment
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