Third, on the left-hand side panel, expand the “Connections” -> expand “SSH” -> select “Auth”. Second, in the “Saved Sessions” field, enter the name that you would like to give for this AWS-EC2-instance on your putty, and click on “Save” to save this sessions in your putty list. Now, that we have the thegeekstuff.pem AWS PEM file converted to thegeekstuff.ppk PuTTY key file, we can use this to login to our AWS EC2 instance.įor this, launch the putty, and do the following:įirst, in the “Host Name (or IP address)” field, enter the public-dns or ip of your AWS EC2 instance. In our case, I’ve named this converted file as thegeekstuff.ppk 5. This will display a warning message saying: “Are you sure you want to save this key without a passphrase to protect it?”. The key passphrase in this case will be empty, as we didn’t have any passphrase for our AWS PEM file in this example.Īlso, in the action section, we’ll see the save button enabled.Ĭlick on the “Save Private Key” button, to save our converted ppk private key. This will display the key fingerprint, key comment. Now that we have the keys loaded, you’ll see in the top “Key” section, our key information will be displayed. Once the *.pem file is loaded, you’ll get a pop-up message saying “Successfully imported foreign key (OpenSSH SSH-2 private key)”. After this, you can browser to the directory where you *.pem file is located, and load it. Click on this drop-down list and choose “All Files” as shown below. Please note that when you click on “Load”, in the file selection window, by default, it will show “PuTTY Private Key Files (*.ppk)” as the option.
In the following PuTTYGen main screen, click on “Load” button, and select your AWS PEM file. See also: 10 Awesome PuTTY Tips and Tricks You Probably Didn’t Know 3. By default the type will be SSH-2 (RSA) and 2048-bit.įor our purpose of converting PEM to PPK, leave all the parameters at their default value. You can also set the value of number of bits for the generated key. You have three options here: SSH-1 (RSA), SSH-2 (RSA), SSH-2 DSA. Parameters Section: Here you’ll specify the type of key to generate. Initially the save buttons will be disabled, as we have not loaded a key yet. Save – Once you’ve generated a new key, or loaded an existing key, you can save either the public-key or the private-key to your local machine.Load – If you already have an existing private key, you can use that by loading it here.Generate – This will let you generate a brand new public/private key pair.When you first launch the puttygen, this section will say “No Key”.Īctions Section: This section will display all the possible actions that you can perform inside PuTTYGen. i.e The key that you are currently working on. Key Section: This will display the current key that is loaded. The main PuTTYGen screen will have the following three sections: But, in our case, we’ll be using this to convert the pem to ppk file. PuTTYGen is a RSA and DSA key generation utility. Launch PuTTYgen by double clicking on it.
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If you are already using only putty.exe as a standalone, then you can also download the standalone puttygen.exe If you’ve used the PuTTY MSI installer, then all the PuTTY utilities comes with it including puttygen. ppk to login to EC2 instance using PuTTY.īTW, the steps to convert pem to ppk for putty is exactly the same for all the Linux AMI images, including CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora, Amazon Linux, etc. We’ll be converting this thegeekstuff.pem file to thegeekstuff.ppk and use the. pem file I have is called thegeekstuff.pem, which is under C drive.
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