Comments on: How To Convert Your Putty .ppk Private Key To A Normal SSH Key You Can Use On An Apple Mac

By: Igor Ganapolsky

Igor Ganapolsky — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:07:53 +0000

Terrific article! Thank you for the instructions on converting the ppk file. I woudn’t have figured it out.

By: Britt

Britt — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:23:45 +0000

Thank you!:)

By: a_monstr

a_monstr — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:58:44 +0000

Thanx a lot, guy! Good howto)

By: Periklis

Periklis — Tue, 04 May 2010 08:17:38 +0000

you saved my day, thanks!!

By: cmchao

cmchao — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:34:20 +0000

Very helpful. Thank you

By: jag

jag — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:24:03 +0000

Many thanks for this, and also to @Raphael for mentioning the MacPorts option!

The puttygen cmd did indeed generate a private key identical to the one obtained from the PC app as described in this how-to, and they worked fine with ssh.

There’s no way I would have figured this out on my own. THANK YOU!

By: didge75

didge75 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:57:09 +0000

Oh Thank you so much

Too much time testing with pub and priv key, dsa/rsa and so.
But i was PUTTY, it works for suze too, normal you would say maybe.
Thanks

Enjoy

By: Bandesz

Bandesz — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:05:43 +0000

Thx for the info, it was very useful

By: Bennie Lunsford

Bennie Lunsford — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:19:08 +0000

Thanks for the steps. This works great.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:42:08 +0000

Awesome! This was incredibly useful and let me move to a Mac without having to update half a dozen public SSH keys in various places on the internet.