How to generate a public key on windows system

Go to puttygen and generate a ssh-2rsa key 2048 length and generate some randomness and use it

to access linux systems in open labs.

Used it for redhat OpenTLC.

for Private key generate one from actions menu in putty gen and save it in a folder.


Now to connect go to putty.exe -- connections--auth -- browse to private file saved above.

Now go to sessions and connect to you host, it will let you connect the environment.