Hate to ask the obvious, but have you tried it without the -f, just using
the filename?
-- Jonathan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 6:59 PM
Subject: ssh to Open SSH ssh-keygen question


> I am running OpenSSH on redhat 8. I have generated a keypair using the
> client from ssh.com (Secure Shell Client). the key has been uploaded to
> the server and I have attempted to convert the key to Open ssh using:
>
> # ssh-keygen -X -f .ssh2/dsa2048key.pub >>.ssh/authorized_keys2
>
> and
>
> # ssh-keygen -i -f  .ssh2/dsa2048key.pub  >> .ssh/authorized_keys2
>
> I get: illegal option -- X
> with the first and:
> Private key -f is unreadable.
> Error: Cannot determine the type of the key.
> with the second.
>
> I have read somplace that some versions of ssh-keygen are unable to make
> this conversion but my RedHat AS 2.1 machine does it fine as well as all
> of my FreeBSD machines.
>
> Anyone have an answer to this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Nathan
>
>
>
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