Convert Putty ppk key to SSH key
You cant use a putty ppk to ssh to a remote server from you linux machine. In that case you may need to first convert ppk to ssh file. For that first you need to install putty on your machine. $ sudo apt-get install putty Then goto the directory and run the following command to convert ppk to ssh file. $ puttygen key.ppk -O private-openssh -o key.ssh Here, I assume, kep.ppk is you ppk file and key.ssh will be newly created ssh file. After this you can ssh to your remote machine/server using following command. $ ssh user@myserver.com -i key.ssh