Easily setup PuTTY SSH keys for passwordless logins using Pageant 

Great job Brian! FYI, if anyone wants to use this for VMware ESXi hosts, the authorized_keys file should be located in '/etc/ssh/keys-' directory. Thanks again Brian!

I wish all you tube explanations were like this. Clear, to the point.

Wow... That's incredibly well presented. The only problem I had was the fact, that when I copied the public key, it truncated the first letter out of it, which is a very minor problem. Thank you!!

Until I watched this video, I couldn't get it working. I tried about 5 times and all failed... not sure what I did different this time, but it worked great with my Raspberry Pi :) Thanks!

Thanks for this amazing video, Brian! Been looking for such a detailed tutorial. SSH keys management on Windows completelety explained

Awesome! Thank you so much, Brian! After so many years your videos continue to help many

Thanks, you saved my life. I was about to bang my head repeatedly on the wall.

Hi Brian, thats a great video which helped creating new private key. so while creating private key, i also generated a passphrase for private key which is great. But for some reason i want to remove that passphrase for my private key. Can you help me with that? how to do that?

Worked like a charm, thank you so much! You're great at explaining and easy to follow.

Thank you. "spot-on" process. Kudos to you.

Thanks, man you saved a bunch of us some headache, thank you.

Awesome video - just the basics! Well done.

Hi Guys, I think this is such an awesome video. I have deployed this to a raspberry Pi version of Centos7 (minimal build) and it works really well. However, I do have a couple of questions...1) To make this truly password less, do I have to edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file to deny password authentication & only allow public/private key access? and 2) If I try to do something like scp, between two Linux machines, if the second machine does not have the private key setup, will the two machines be able to talk to each other? I am in the process of building another machine to test this myself, but if the answer is no, then how do I get things like scp & sftp to work between machines that have and do not have the key infrastructure? I can see on the video how it would be done via putty but I am thinking about scp between a client and server perhaps where I only have the key setup on my servers.

I always do "chmod 400 ~/.ssh/auhorized_keys" to prevent even the owner from making changes and only the owner should be allowed to read from this file. This does create a problem if you copy it to a different user folder but you can always change the owner of the copied file to the new user using root permission. It's extra security.

Thank you Brian. Much appreciated.

Thanks for this great video! My only complaint is that video resolution is too low, but thanks anyway...

Excellent, Clear ... Thank you ......

Thanks! It was really useful.

Thanks for this video !!

thanx after 2 days search you save me (win 10)

If you set a passphrase you will have to enter it every time you connect which is annoying, and sort of defeats the convenience of using keys to begin with.

Thanks lot, can you please explain how to use the file transfer utility from puTTy ? thanks lot.

You are the man!

Thanks Brian, great video.

I love you. Thank you very much lol.

can you please tell what can cause error "Server refused our key"? i'm following video step by step... i am using RSA when generateing key, is that the case? i'm using new 0.70 version of putty and there is no SSH(RSA-2), so i used what was selected on default - RSA. or may be it is because i have no other user except root. can that be a problem?

Easy to follow, excellent.

I can only make this work only for my Root user, but not also for my regular users... :( "server refused your key" .. not sure what is going on.. been dealing with this for such a long time now ... can you please help with any suggestions? everything else seems configured as it should sshd_config file etc.....

Very well explained ! Thanks

Thank you!

sir iam doing direct but there is a error connection error time out why it's show while iam going correct steping

Thanks Brian !!!!

Thanks - a big help.

when i give the password it in putty hangs up. any solution ?

when I open putty it doesn't ive me the password its just a green bar what do I do

where that server1 came from. mine does not accept.

Passphrase we can set anything?

What is the default password? It asks me a password before I will be able to log in.

excellent Brian Smith's

I AM STUCK with chmod!!!! how can you use chmod in win10?!!!! it is for unix OS i believe

Thank You Sir

server1 ? it doesnt work for me unable to open connection to server1 lol

Thanks a lot man

good video. Thanks

thx life saver :D !

thank you soooo much :-)

Thnx man Thnx a lott

Exactly the question: You're going too fast... mostly I couldn't see or didn't know what you were typing and had to search other tutorials to find out what you were doing... For example, at the end of the vi file paste, how to you get to the bottom of the screen to save? G does not work, and I can't see how you got there before :wq save.

I cant type my ssh password in putty

You're going too fast... mostly I couldn't see or didn't know what you were typing and had to search other tutorials to find out what you were doing... For example, at the end of the vi file paste, how to you get to the bottom of the screen to save? G does not work, and I can't see how you got there before :wq save.

tnx =)

This video becomes utterly useless for those with a windows server as of 3:21, because 'chmod' is not a command on Windows. So, if you were looking how to fix the 'Server refused our key' error for windows machines, this ain't it, chief

i got error why its refusing key?