HqvvtgK0WfFtFYEvdAKjIz1abMXH5srFs6mqDJ56jxtxc9alBnINanKsnYmEzPģcdcJTREA/BUoShSonXN元pJs8dtJovldejw6QPB2S2Wnt4FfFOHidwilN15xb If there is additional line above and below, remove those.ĪAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAAQEAxznqQ5ic/ctZi1AKS6ysTYo+v3fsADTLup Open your public.key with notepad and make sure it’s formatted it correctly:īe sure that it’s all formatted on one line like in the above above, and NOT formatted like below, or your key will not work. We now need to copy the public key into your GridPane account. Step 3: Open public.key, copy and add to GridPane
Last, click save private key button, and save that to a folder of your choice. The private key is sensitive, never share it with anyone and guard it on your machine. The public key is what you’ll upload to GridPane, and doesn’t need to be guarded. NOTE: If changing the key comment, do not include spaces or special characters. Next, click save public key button and save it to a folder of your choice, and name it accordingly, OR copy and paste it into notepad from the box at the top – it begins with “ssh-rsa”. The private key is sensitive, never share it with anyone and guard it on your machine. Save it to a folder of your choice and call it privateopenssh.key or a name of your choice.
More than likely you won’t need it, but it’s worth exporting it now. The OpenSSH key can be used on Linux workstations. Step 2.1 Convert to OpenSSHįirst, you want to click conversions and do export OpenSSH key, this is a private key. If you don’t do a passphrase it’ll log you right in with no prompt. If you choose to do a passphrase, the server will prompt for that passphrase. You’ll need to save three files once your key has been generated, it will also prompt about passphrase. It will ask you to move your mouse around to generate the key.
#PUTTY KEY GENERATOR DOWNLOAD#
Once you download PuttyGen, launch it and click Generate: If you would rather watch a guide, here is the video, otherwise continue to written guide below:
#PUTTY KEY GENERATOR WINDOWS#
Most users are running a 64bit Windows OS, but both should run on your PC.
#PUTTY KEY GENERATOR PC#
All you will need is a Windows PC and the following software: I opened Notepad again, put this content and saved it as hello.This article will help you generate and push a key. Actual reasonĪfter that, I wondered why the file encoding matters even without CJK letters. I changed the file encoding to ANSI and PuTTYgen worked happily. I always do that because if I save a file with ANSI encoding, the default option, Korean letters do not show up correctly in other editors - Notepad encodes CJK letters with CP949 while other editors expects UTF-8 as the default encoding. Then, I suddenly realised that I selected UTF-8 encoding when saving the key file. I tried to add a newline at the file’s end but still PuTTYgen complains about the file format.
I opened it with Notepad again and checked if I made a mistake copy-pasting it, and it was not the reason too. I thought it might be the problem with the file extension at first, so I changed it to. PuTTYgen spits out an error Troubleshooting I opened Notepad, copy-pasted the content and then saved it as key.pem as I always did.Īnd tried to load it from PuTTYgen, then I saw this error: It always worked well and I had no problems with using PuTTYgen.īut today I accidently deleted my PPK file and had to regenerate it.įortunately I backed up the key file on Dropbox, and was able to send the content of the key file from my phone to my computer, via messenger. PuTTY cannot consume this key file as-is.Īs suggested in AWS Docs, PuTTYgen is the preferred tool for converting PEM files to PPK(PuTTY Private Key) files.