{"id":398,"date":"2012-08-26T18:56:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T00:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/?p=398"},"modified":"2012-08-26T18:56:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T00:56:43","slug":"putty-ssh-ppk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/2012\/08\/putty-ssh-ppk\/","title":{"rendered":"Putty SSH PPK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Geek alert &#8211; this post is largely for personal future reference on a geeky topic, how to set up private key authentication with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.putty.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">PuTTY <\/a>terminal emulator program.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Other posts with instructions to use puttygen and where to put private\/public key data are correct.\u00a0 Google &#8220;putty ppk&#8221; for pointers to some of those.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The issue most posts on this topic don&#8217;t address is OS file permissions.\u00a0 It seems that particularly on the CentOS servers I often work on, this is a sensitive issue.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The .ssh directory must be drwx&#8212;&#8212;<\/div>\n<div>\nThe .ssh\/authorized_keys file must be -rw&#8212;&#8212;-<\/div>\n<div>\nAnd particularly easy to miss, especially if you have reconfigured to make sharing easy among team members, your *home* directory must be drwxr-xr-x<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s 700, 600, and 755 for the numeric chown crowd.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geek alert &#8211; this post is largely for personal future reference on a geeky topic, how to set up private key authentication with the PuTTY terminal emulator program. Other posts with instructions to use puttygen and where to put private\/public key data are correct.\u00a0 Google &#8220;putty ppk&#8221; for pointers to some of those. The issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennissherman.com\/dennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}