

#Putty for mac with reg file password#
In Private key section click 'View/Download' beside the key (id_dsa) and then under 'Private SSH Key id_dsa conversion to ppk format:' enter the password you set in step #2 and click Convert to get the key in format suitable for Putty and download the key (id_dsa.ppk or id_rsa.ppk) to your PC. In each of these files your public key string is included. This will create authorized_keys and authorized_keys2 files in your /home/USERNAME/.ssh directory.

In Public key section click 'Manage Authorization' and 'Authorize' In such case try to set up a new key pair avoiding special characters in passphrase. You will then get Server refused our key Access denied in Putty and Permission denied (publickey) in Linux/Mac command line. Please note that some special characters in passphrase can cause the key to become unusable. In 11.32.4 version of cPanel there seems to be a problem with generating key size different than 1024. This will create key pair (id_dsa, id_dsa.pub) in /home/USERNAME/.ssh file. IMPORTANT: as OpenSSH 7+ deprecated DSA use RSA (id_rsa) when generating keys.

You will be asked the password each time you use the key. You should use a password to protect the key. # Click Manage SSH Keys > Genarate a New Key. Follow this guide to have key based SSH connection set up in Putty.įor SSH access from Windows we recommend PuTTY and PuTTYgen from Login to cPanel and go to Security > SSH/Shell Access to generate SSH key pair for use with a standalone SSH client like Putty. On a cPanel server where password login is not allowed you will need to use SSH key.
