How to configure PuTTY?

[rtuite]

After much struggling with the online documentation, I managed to get SSH configured with a user to log in. However, I am still unable to connect with Putty. I assume I'm not providing the key appropriately to PuTTY, but I'm inexperienced with SSH using keypairs and can't seem to find anything to point me in the right direction.

I put the host key in PuTTY like so:

However, I'm still getting "connection refused" when trying to SSH to the machine.

 

[Basil Hendroff]

Shouldn't be necessary. You should see a security alert dialogue box similar to the one below when you connect to the server for the first time. Just click YES.

 

[Yorick]

Are you trying the connect with a key, rather than password? That's the user key, not host key. The secret portion of the user key in PuTTY; the public portion on FreeNAS. Look under auth in PuTTY.

 

[danb35]

Though I'm sure the PuTTY docs explain how to configure public-key authentication, this discusses it from a FreeNAS perspective:

fester112:ssh_setup [danb35's Wiki]

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