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GENI-NSF / aws-transition

A temporary repository to track issues related to the transition to Amazon Web Services and CentOS 7
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putty key generation is not working #14

Open tcmitchell opened 7 years ago

tcmitchell commented 7 years ago

Users receive an invalid passphrase error even if they're using the correct passphrase

tcmitchell commented 7 years ago

puttygen is not installed on the portal host. Further, it is not available as an RPM for CentOS any longer. It used to be in a third party repository, but that repository is no longer available. I found an RPM online, but it has dependencies on a bunch of X11 code for its GUI, which we do not want on a server.

tcmitchell commented 7 years ago

For now we have built puttygen on a separate host and copied it onto the portal host in /usr/local/bin. Putty keys can be downloaded again.

We need a longer term solution for future portal installation. Not sure how to proceed with that. It's not great to tell installers to build puttygen on a separate system and copy the executable over.

tcmitchell commented 7 years ago

We'd like to have this installed by RPM. This may require generating our own putty.spec file and hosting the package with the clearinghouse and portal packages.