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How to convert Putty’s private key (.ppk) into OpenSSH’s private key format in Windows?

June 17, 2009

If you generated a Putty private key (.ppk) in Windows and you want to use it with a SSH or SFTP client (for example Gnome Terminal, Nautilus, gFTP) in Linux, you have to convert it to OpenSSH’s private key format, because putty private key format (.ppk) is not compatible with OpenSSH.
Okay, open PuTTYgen and [...]

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How to convert PuTTY’s private key (.ppk) into OpenSSH’s private key format in Linux?

April 3, 2009

If you want to use your PuTTY generated private key (.ppk) in Linux with not only PuTTY, but other SSH or SFTP client (Terminal, Nautilus, GFTP, etc), you have to convert it to OpenSSH’s private key format, because PuTTY private key format (.ppk) is not compatible with OpenSSH.
First, install “putty-tools” package, if you did [...]