https://pomfret.uk/tags/ssh/ Recent content in Ssh on Daniel Pomfret Hugo en-us © Daniel Pomfret Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://pomfret.uk/posts/convert-a-private-key-ppk-to-pem-on-mac-osx/ Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://pomfret.uk/posts/convert-a-private-key-ppk-to-pem-on-mac-osx/ <p>If you&rsquo;ve used putty to generate your private key, you may need to convert it to a PEM file instead</p> <p>Firstly install putty via Homebrew</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback"><span style="display:flex;"><span>$ brew install putty </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Then convert the file</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback"><span style="display:flex;"><span>$ puttygen privatekey.ppk -O private-openssh -o privatekey.pem </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Install the key by moving the file to ~/.ssh</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-fallback" data-lang="fallback"><span style="display:flex;"><span>$ mv privatekey.pem ~/.ssh </span></span></code></pre></div>