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Next log in to SLAC unix (e.g. noric.slac.stanford.edu), and cd to ".ssh/.public". Open the file authorized_keys2 using your favorite editor. Now select and copy the string labelled "Public key for pasting into OpenSSH authorized_keys2 file:" from the puttygen dialog, and surprise-surprise, paste it into your authorized_keys2 file. Save the file and double-check that the filemode is "-rw-r-r-" If not fix it with:
chmod 644 authorized_keys2
OK, we are nearly done. Finally download pageant.exe from here and save it in the same directory as puttygen.exe. Double-click on pageant.exe and nothing will happen except a small icon showing a computer with a hat on will appear in the windows taskbar. Double-click on this icon, and a dialog will appear like this:
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- Each time you log in to windows you will have to restart pageant and give your passphrase. If like me you stay logged in for weeks, this is no big deal. You can slightly simplify things by creating a shortcut to start pageant and load in your identify.ppk automatically. To do this create a shortcut with a target of:
"C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS\pageant.exe" "c:\Documents and Settings\Tony Johnson\My Documents\identity.ppk"
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- This shortcut will then start pageant and load your identity (it will still prompt for a password).
- pageant and puttygen are part of PuTTY, a terminal emulator with support for SSH. If you choose to use PuTTY too it can share the same ssh keys as TortoiseCVS. Putty PuTTY can be found at http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/.