I've been using PuTTY for many years and I'm quite happy with it. Since I'm pursuing CCIE and CCIE lab is using SecureCRT, so I decide to switch to SecureCRT to familiarize with it.
The very first challenge is to convert my key pairs generated by PuTTYGen for SecureCRT use. Not as straight forward as I think...... Here are the steps:
1. Use PuTTYGen to load your existing private keys
2. Use "Conversions" to export private key in OpenSSH format named identity
3. Export your public key named identity.pub
4. Put both files in the same folder
Then Start your SecureCRT
1. Choose QuickConnect
2. Protocol = SSH2, and enter the hostname or ip address
3. Under the "Authentication" session, Only checked "PublicKey"
4. Click "Properties" at the right pane
5. Choose "Use Global public key setting"
6. Under "Use identity or certificate file" and choose your identity.pub and click ok.
7. Enter your passphrase and get connected!
11 comments:
I've spend hours of trying to import OpenSSH keys into SecureCRT and finally it works.Thanks for the perfect instructions!
Thank you for this, very helpful.
Thank you so much for this. I've been trying to get this to work for ages
Thank you so much,
Very helpful.
I have tried your given steps but it doesn't ask for passphrase.
Thank you, you helped me a lot!
Thank you! You helped me a lot.
Thank you
I was banging my head into a wall before I stumbled upon your blog. Thank you so much, you are a life saver!
trying to make this work for couple of hours and all went in vain until I stumbled upon your blog..Thanks so much mate!
Thanks a lot mate!!
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