topic Re: Recommend a SSH client which support PKA ? in Operating System - Linux

Recommend a SSH client which support PKA ?

Thomas Ritter — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:49:04 GMT

I find my self using Putty and free version of Xshell 2.0 to connect to many linux and unix hosts. I want to automate the connectivity using Public Key Authentication.
Is anybody using a SSH client which supports PKA they would recommend ? It need not be a free version. My employer will pay for what ever I find suitable.

Re: Recommend a SSH client which support PKA ?

smatador — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:50:46 GMT

Hi,
Perhaps I don't understand your need, but with putty and xshell 3.0 you have the capacity to made a key and to made a public key authentification. So for example a tuto with putty
http://www.bmonday.com/articles/653.aspx
Hope it helps

Re: Recommend a SSH client which support PKA ?

Ivan Ferreira — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:44:10 GMT

Putty can use public keys. You can also use Reflection or TeraTerm.

Re: Recommend a SSH client which support PKA ?

Florian Heigl (new acc) — Wed, 06 May 2009 13:42:11 GMT

Doi you just want to use premade keys or also a central CA & full PKI?

for the first thing putty and putty-keygen will do fine, ReflectionX is even easier because you can use standard openssh keys (i use that daily).

If you need full PKI support the harder issue is that OpenSSH doesn't have support to use keys from LDAP or other sources and if I recall correctly you need F-Secure SSH Server and (i think) SecureCRT as client.