An SSH key can be stored in multiple format. ssh-keygen
from OpenSSH
generates keys in its own format, but other SSH implementations can use other
formats. PuTTY for example generates keys in RFC4716 format, which looks like
this:
-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----
MIIBCgK349HFUE929fXGEvWmegnBGSuS+rU9soUg2FnODva32D1AqhwdziwHINFa
D1MVlcrYG6XRKfkcIFEO929JFNEJONBSEVCgJjtHAGZIm5GL/KA86KDp/CwDFMSw
luowcXwDwoyinmeOY9eKyh6aY72xJh7noLBBq1N0bWi1e2i+83txOCg4yV2oVXhB
o8pYEJ8LT3el6Smxol3C1oFMVdwPgc0vTl25XucMcG/ALE/KNY6pqC2AQ6R2ERlV
gPiUWOPatVkt7+Bs3h5Ramxh7XjBOXeulmCpGSynXNcpZ/06+vofGi/2MlpQZNhH
Ao8eayMp6FcvNucIpUndo1X8dKMv3Y26ZQIDAQAB
-----END RSA PUBLIC KEY-----
You can't simply copy-paste this in an authorized_keys file. Hopefully you
can easily convert the public key from a format to another. This is done by
I-do-about-anything-and-everything command, aka ssh-keygen
:
$ ssh-keygen -i -m <format> -f input_key.pub > output_key.pub
-m
specify the input key format among RFC4716 (the format used by PuTTY, this
is the default if -m
isn't specified), PKCS8 and PEM.