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I have been using Putty on Windows XP and used the .ppk file to connect to my Linux servers (several servers).

On the servers I have the following folder and file ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

I now want to use a Mac to connect via the terminal. I have set up the remote connections to the servers manually and want to know how I can setup using the ppk file or the private/public key within it.

Please note : I already am using private/public key login from Windows so I do not need to create a new key using keygen, I just want to know how to set up now that I have the keys already. (In other words, I already have the authorized key lists on the server, and the public and private key).

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You can ssh directly from the Terminal on Mac, but you need to use a .PEM key rather than the putty.PPK key. You can use PuttyGen on Windows to convert from .PEM to .PPK, I'm not sure about the other way around though.

You can also convert the key using putty for Mac via port or brew:

or

This will also install puttygen. To get puttygen to output a .PEM file:

Once you have the key, open a terminal window and:

The private key must have tight security settings otherwise SSH complains. Make sure only the user can read the key.

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Convert PPK to OpenSSh

OS X: Install Homebrew, then run

brew install putty

Place your keys in some directory, e.g. your home folder. Now convert the PPK keys to SSH keypairs:cache search

To generate the private key:

cd ~

puttygen id_dsa.ppk -O private-openssh -o id_dsa

and to generate the public key:

puttygen id_dsa.ppk -O public-openssh -o id_dsa.pub

Move these keys to ~/.ssh and make sure the permissions are set to private for your private key:

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Piran

There is a way to do this without installing putty on your Mac. You can easily convert your existing PPK file to a PEM file using PuTTYgen on Windows.

Launch PuTTYgen and then load the existing private key file using the Load button. From the 'Conversions' menu select 'Export OpenSSH key' and save the private key file with the .pem file extension.

Copy the PEM file to your Mac and set it to be read-only by your user:

Then you should be able to use ssh to connect to your remote server

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