Hello Team,

I've created a public and private key in puttygen that allows me to connect my putty to any of my Red Hat or Ubuntu servers. All my Linux servers have the public key for this private key.

Now I have one Red Hat server where I would also like to have the ability to connect to any of my Red Hat or Ubuntu servers from one Red Hat Master Server. Since all my Red Hat and Ubuntu Servers already have this public key installed, I thought it would make sense to use the same private key I created for putty and convert this so that I can use the same private key from this one Red Hat Master server to all my other Red Hat and Ubuntu servers.

Is this possible to convert my putty private key and install this on Red Hat to do what I need?
If so, what are the steps to convert this private key.
And what are the steps to install this converted private key on a Red Hat Server?

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide me.

Keys are between computers, so no, you cannot use the key from your Windows ‘puter between two of your other servers.

You CAN generate a key for your RH server to connect to other servers. I away from my desktops at the moment, but search for ssh-keygen or “generate ssh keys red hat” to find how to do what puttygen did on the Windows ‘puter.

I think you’ll need to generate keys on/for each source computer, but they can then be used on several target computers, just as your putty keys could be used.

Thanks @scasey for taking the time to respond.

The reason I thought that I could convert my putty private key to something that I can use on Linux is because in puttygen there is a conversion tab. I can convert my Private key to OpenSSH key. I was hoping that OpenSSH key would be something I can use on Linux so I don't have to generate a new private/public key and recopy all the new public keys to my linux computers.

Thanks.