UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Well, I generated the public and private keys on the windows server and saved them both in my mydocuments folder. Then copied the public key over to directory in $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys file on my solaris box. Is there anything else im supposed to do?

This is command im using am I supposed to pass something in this to have it read the key?
pscp.exe "C:\Program Files\Backup\Notification_1.bku" tom@nitro:/tmp

ssh is very strict with file permissions, perhaps there's the problem
try to remove all rights for group and others from .ssh and the authorized_keys file

the key in the authoroized_keys file has to be entered in just one line, if there are end of line strings in the file it will not work
when you simply copy & paste the key you have to connect the lines (shift + j in vi)

nothing.... =/ this is making me insane this shouldn't be that hard haha I have to be missing something

Info just incase someone is trying to do what I did and can't figure it out.

I knew it was something stupid.

I created my key on a windows box using puttygen.exe well it doesn't add ssh-rsa to the front of the file or tom@whatever.test.com to the end.

Example:
ssh-rsa AAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABJQAAA== tom@whatever.test.com

Also, I was saying to myself how the heck does the windows machine ack with the solaris box to authorize the keys. Well, I had to run pageant.exe on my windows box and add the private key to that.

YAY, it works!

Thanks for all the tips and stuff guys, it really helped me figure out what the heck was going on!