Convert PEM to PPK file format

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Is there a way to convert PEM files to PPK files   you may guess that Amazon EC2 gives me a PEM file  and I need to use the PPK format for SSH connectivity

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I had the same issue with PuttyGen not wanting to import an openSSH private key   I tried everything and what I found out was the old version of PuttyGen did not support importing OpenSSH   Once I downloaded the latest Putty  puttygen then allowed it to import the openssh private key just fine    I now have a hole in the side of my desk for pounding my head against it for the past hour

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To SSH connectivity to AWS EC2 instance  You don t need to convert the  PEM file to PPK file even on windows machine  Simple SSH using  git bash  tool  No need to download and convert these softwares - Hope this will save your time of downloading and converting keys and get you more time on EC2 things

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Use PuTTYGen  Creating and Using SSH Keys  Overview  vCloud Express now has the ability to create SSH Keys for Linux servers  This function will allow the user to create multiple custom keys by selecting the  My Account Key Management  option  Once the key has been created the user will be required to select the desired SSH Key during the    Create Server    process for Linux   Create and Use SSH Keys   Create keys   Navigate to    My Account    Select    Key Management    Create New Key    During the key creation process you will be prompted to download your private key file in  PEM format  You will not be able to download the private key again as it is not stored in vCloud Express  The    Default    checkbox is used for the API    Deploy server and select key Connect   SSH  Mac Linux    Copy  PEM file to the machine from which you are going to connect  Make sure permissions on  PEM file are appropriate  chmod 600 file pem  Connect with ssh command  ssh vcloud ipaddress    i privkey pem  Putty  Windows    Download Putty and puttygen from - here Use puttygen to convert  PEM file to  PPK file  Start puttygen and select    Load    Select your  PEM file  Putty will convert the  PEM format to  PPK format   Select    Save Private Key    A passphrase is not required but can be used if additional security is required   Connect with Putty    Launch Putty and enter the host IP address  If connecting to the 10 X private address you must first establish an SSL VPN connection  Navigate to Connection SSH Auth Click    Browse    and select the  PPK file you exported from puttygen   Click    Open     When connection comes up enter username  default is vcloud       Instructions copied from here

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Save YourPEMFILE pem to your  ssh directory Run puttygen from Command Prompt  a  Click    Load    button to    Load an existing private key file                   b             Change the file filter to    All Files                    c              Select the YourPEMFILE pem                d             Click Open                e             Puttygen shows a notice saying that it Successfully imported foreign key   Click OK                 f              Click    Save private key    button                g             When asked if you are sure that you want to save without a passphrase entered  answer    Yes                    h             Enter the file name YourPEMFILE ppk                i               Click    Save

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I m rather shocked that this has not been answered since the solution is very simple   As mentioned in previous posts  you would not want to convert it using C   but just once   This is easy to do with PuTTYGen    Download your  pem from AWS Open PuTTYgen Click  Load  on the right side about 3 4 down Set the file type to     Browse to  and Open your  pem file PuTTY will auto-detect everything it needs  and you just need to click  Save private key  and you can save your ppk key for use with PuTTY   Enjoy

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If you have Linux machine just install puttygen in your system and use use below command to convert the key  pem to ppk use below command   puttygen keyname -o keyname ppk  Below command is use to convert ppk to pem not pem to ppk  puttygen filename ppk -O private-openssh -o filename pem

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I used a trial version of ZOC Terminal Emulator and it worked  It readily accepts the Amazon s   pem files    The trick is though  that you need to specify  ec2-user  instead of  root  for the username - despite the example shown in the EC2 console  which is wrong   -

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Download  puttygen Then open puttygen click load  Set the file type to   all files Save PrivateKey and then u can just save any name that file became an  ppk file

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Convert  pem file to  ppk for Windows 10  You need to do following     1  Download PuTTYGen with Pageant     2  Press  load  button and select your   pem  file     3  Press  save private key  button and save your   ppk  file     4  Open Pageant and press  add key  button  Just all  Keep running Pageant in background  5  Now login through SSH or SFTP without selecting password field

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PuTTYgen for Ubuntu Linux and PEM to PPK  sudo apt install putty-tools puttygen -t rsa -b 2048 -C  user host  -o keyfile ppk

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