SSH using the same ke

[ryy705]

Hello,

I SSH into a server from my windows partition using putty. The connection
requires a private key that is in my widows partition. This all works fine.

Now, How can I do same from my linux partition? Can I copy the key to my linux partition somewhere so I can connect from my linux partition as well? Or do I need to setup separate public/private key for my linux partition?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[jr0sco]

Yes you can use the same private key from your windows partition. You need to copy it over to your Linux partition into ~/.ssh/

Then run this command

cat your_private.key >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Detailed information about setting up ssh keys can be found here:

How to setup automatic login with ssh without a password | magicmonster.com

JC

[ryy705]

Hello,
Thank you for your post.
It did not work:
Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic).

There were already to files under ~/.ssh/.
They are:
id_rsa id_rsa.pub

so, is that why it is failing?

[jr0sco]

Copy the id_rsa from your windows machine and copy the contents of the id_rsa file to the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and check the permissions are correct.

JC