(Answer) (Category) WebGUI FAQ : (Category) Sticky/News/Non Sequitur :
Trials with PUTTY and PAGEANT and SSH keys
You know why there doesn't seem to be any support for PAM/PUTTY/PAGEANT/SSH?

Because it's so stupidly easy to get it right if you pay attention.

OK, My situation: (I'm a Windows user connecting to, in this case, FreeBSD,
but feel free to insert your *nix distribution here.)
To get started, I assume at least the following:
You have OpenSSH running on your host/server.
You've downloaded putty, puttygen, and pageant.
You have generated a private/public SSH2 keypair.

Here's the kicker: you *MUST* copy the stuff in the gray box to your login on
your host. It's not good enough to copy from the .pub key that you generate.

Where do you put this copied mess? $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys
it's important that your $HOME directory be chmod 755 or 711.
your .ssh directory should be chmod 700
the files in .ssh should be 600
Pageant should run on your Windows box, and the private key should be added.
Putty should have a configuration (SSH) link to your private key file.
Putty should also try to use SSH2 first.

This has absolutely nothing to do with WebGUI, but what it does mean is that you
can securely access a remote site with your key! (kinda like rhosts, but safer,
both because it encrypts your connection as well as identifies you.)
wg-fomATgwyDOTorg

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