I have a production server. To login to the server I must use a .ppk
file.
How to login with Ubuntu Terminal and .ppk
file?
I tried this :
ssh -i location/file.ppk username@server-ip
but it is showing an error message.
I have a production server. To login to the server I must use a .ppk
file.
How to login with Ubuntu Terminal and .ppk
file?
I tried this :
ssh -i location/file.ppk username@server-ip
but it is showing an error message.
If you only have .ppk file then it would be useful to create a .pem file and then connect to your server using that.
In you Ubuntu computer, install putty-tools
with the following command:
sudo apt-get install putty-tools
Now convert your .ppk
file to .pem
using the following command:
puttygen yourkey.ppk -O private-openssh -o yourkey.pem
Set the proper permission to use the .pem
file with following command:
chmod 400 yourkey.pem
Now connect to your server using the below command:
ssh -i yourkey.pem serverusername@server-ip
Hope it helps.
You can convert a .ppk
file in ubuntu with installing putty-tools
. So
apt-get install putty-tools
Then youn can convert the .ppk
file with puttygen
to OpenSSH's format like so:
puttygen <the_key.ppk> -O private-openssh -o <new_openssh_key>.key
brew install putty
and you will have puttygen
, eventually.
Feb 16, 2021 at 15:23
.ppk
is a file format used by Windows program PuTTYgen.
You can try the following procedure published by Kaleb Pederson on StackOverflow:
puttygen
supports exporting your private key to an OpenSSH compatible format. You can then use OpenSSH tools to recreate the public key.
- Open PuttyGen
- Click Load
- Load your private key
- Go to
Conversions->Export OpenSSH
and export your private key- Copy your private key to
~/.ssh/id_dsa
(orid_rsa
).Create the RFC 4716 version of the public key using
ssh-keygen
ssh-keygen -e -f ~/.ssh/id_dsa > ~/.ssh/id_dsa_com.pub
Convert the RFC 4716 version of the public key to the OpenSSH format:
ssh-keygen -i -f ~/.ssh/id_dsa_com.pub > ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub
Install the putty tools, if you don`t have on Linux:
sudo apt-get install putty-tools
Generate the pem file run the following command:
puttygen keyname.ppk -O private-openssh -o keyname.pem
Place the pemkey.pem
file in your ~/.ssh
directory:
cp keyname.pem ~/.ssh
Set the pem file to have the proper permissions:
chmod 400 keyname.pem
Thats it.