Ssh to router, problem with permission

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This is wrong place to store the private key!
In known_hosts the fingerprints of the servers that you connect are stored.
Please read the link I wrote above about creating a proper pair of keys. This problem you are facing is not related to OpenWrt.

[Peacefuleight]

I used putty to generate key

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Use the ssh-keygen since you are in Linux Mint.

[Peacefuleight]

$ ls -l ~/.ssh/id_localrouter
-rw-rw-r-- 1 james james 81 Dec 2 13:23 /home/james/.ssh/id_localrouter

[lleachii]

@Peacefuleight

used putty to generate key

• You should have:
  • a *.key file (we assume this is your id_localrouter file)
  • a *.pub file
• Install .pub on OpenWrt
• use the .key file to login
  • using the -i argument; or
  • installing in ssh config

@Peacefuleight

-rw-rw-r--

chmod 600 /home/james/.ssh/id_localrouter

This should change the output to:

-rw-------

...which is required.

Make sure you have generated a valid *.key file (and a *.pub from the *.key first)!

[Peacefuleight]

I used ssh-keygen

new key.pub is in openwrt LuCi.
I tried again to login but does not work yet.

when you say

use the .key file to login

how you use it in terminal ?
thanks again for your time

[Peacefuleight]

[lleachii]

@Peacefuleight

how you use it in terminal ?

Here are examples:

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ssh -v -i ~/.ssh/id_localrouter root@192.168.1.1

@lleachii

Try:

ssh 192.168.1.1 -l root -i ~/.ssh/id_localrouter

[Peacefuleight]

thanks guys, sorry for the problem