Generate A Pub Key From Pem
How do I convert my Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Privacy Enhanced Mail (.pem) file to a PuTTY Private Key (.ppk) file? Or, convert a .ppk file to a .pem file?
Short Description
PuTTY doesn't natively support the private key format (.pem) generated by Amazon EC2. You must convert your private key into a .ppk file before you can connect to your instance using PuTTY. You can use the PuTTYgen tool for this conversion. This tool, available for both Windows and Unix operating system, can convert keys.
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Windows - install PuTTYgen
Most Windows operating systems have PuTTY installed. If your system doesn't, download and install PuTTYgen.
Basically you need to generate a self signed certificate from the private key, using commands like this: openssl req -key domain.key -new -x509 -days 365 -out domain.crt You can use openssl commands to convert your private key PEM to a.KEY file. From there you can use openssl commands to convert your key and cert to pfx. Jul 17, 2017 How to Generate pem file to ssh the server without Password in Linux. To generate an RSA key pair for version 2 of the SSH protocol, follow these steps. I created a key pair using ssh-keygen and get the two clasic idrsa and idrsa.pub. I imported the public key into my AWS EC2 account. Now I created a windows instance and to decrypt that instance password, AWS console is asking me for a.pem file.
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Windows - convert a .pem file to a .ppk file
Start PuTTYgen, and then convert the .pem file to a .ppk file. For detailed steps, see Convert Your Private Key Using PuTTYgen.
Windows - convert a .ppk file to a .pem file
- Start PuTTYgen. For Actions, choose Load, and then navigate to your .ppk file.
- Choose the .ppk file, and then choose Open.
- (Optional) For Key passphrase, enter a passphrase. For Confirm passphrase, re-enter your passphrase.
Note: Although a passphrase isn't required, you should specify one as a security measure to protect the private key from unauthorized use. Using a passphrase makes automation difficult, because human intervention is needed to log in to an instance or to copy files to an instance. - From the menu at the top of the PuTTY Key Generator, choose Conversions, Export OpenSSH Key.
Note: If you didn't enter a passphrase, you receive a PuTTYgen warning. Choose Yes. - Name the file and add the .pem extension.
- Choose Save.
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Unix or Linux - install PuTTY
Install PuTTY, if it's not already on your system.
Important: A PuTTY package is provided by the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository. You must enable the EPEL repository before you install PuTTY.
To install PuTTY, run one of the following commands:
RPM-based
Dpkg-based
Unix or Linux - convert a .pem file to a .ppk file
On the instance shell, run the puttygen command to convert your .pem file to a .ppk file:
Unix or Linux - convert a .ppk file to a .pem file
Run the puttygen command to convert a .ppk file into a .pem file:
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