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Mikrotik SSH Client to another SSH Server with Private Key

Thu Jan 16, 2020 8:01 pm

Dear All

I use Puttygen to generate RSA 2048 Private and Public Key and upload to Mikrotik for import
I stuck on the import step encounter with error Couldn't perform action unable to load key file (wrong format?) ! (6)
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Re: Mikrotik SSH Client to another SSH Server with Private Key

Thu Jan 16, 2020 10:00 pm

RouterOS can not import PPK files. Export the file to OpenSSH format.