UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi,

I know that I'm a little off the right forum but it seems like there is more experience and knowledge among Unix/Linux users than among Windows users in this case. I have seen many similar explanations on how to set up the public keys in Unix but nothing that I've tried of the Windows tips have worked - maybe there is some problem in my environment. Maybe there is someone here that is expert on both Unix and Windows in this case.

I have some problems regarding the use of SSH(and also being a newbie in the SSH world). I have an application that uses SSH but when I want to use public key authentication. The server is a Win2003 server with F-Secure SSH server 5.3. I'm logged in as administrator and the administrator have started the F-secure server.

When trying to log in on the server I get "no more authentication methods available" and that is quite easy to understand why I get - I have created a keypair in the application but I have no idea where to put the public key on the server. As I understand it is to be put in .ssh-folder but where is that supposed to be?
I have found many similar descriptions on how to put the .pub file on a Unix/Linux computer but when it comes to Windows there isn't much to find.

When checking the F-secure server configuration it says that user key directory is %D\.ssh but I don't know what %D is supposed to be. The authorization file is called authorization but I haven't found any such file in the computer. I have tried to create and put the created key inside it and moving it around to different locations but without success.

Can anyone tell me where to put my public key and hopefully get it to work?

Regards,
Kalle

What, exactly, have you tried?

this suggests it belongs under Documents and Settings\Application Data\F-Secure SSH\

Given that strange a path, I wouldn't trust that just plunking files in there would do what you want.

this says there's an "F-Secure Key Generation Wizard".

Thank you for your reply!

It helped a lot and now I have managed to connect using SSH and public key. The main problem was the %D. According to the document you pointed out to me it could not be used which it was in this case. Since there had been people working on the machine I somewhat expected that it would be in somewhat useful state but obviously I was wrong. There was no authorization file either....
I asked people that had been working with SSH previously on this machine but did not get an answer that could help solving the problem.

Thank you!