There are distinct setups for SSH2 environments and OpenSSH environments and sometimes the keys are converted from one to the other. Also, if the key already exists, we redeploy them. The DOC server contains the public key files which should be copied to DOC07 as is and if the DOC system was using the Tectia SSH2 / Solaris OpenSSH server, the keys can / should be converted using the following commands: -- find SSH version ssh -V -- for SSH2 01 Connect as the user on the server that needs to connect to DOC07. 02 Find the key that is currently being used. 03 Note the name of the .ssh2 pub key for example: ascban -- appworx_chemung.pub On DOC7 as the user to be connected to... find the path to the ssh2 ssh! cd .ssh2 ssh-keygen -i -f appworx_chemung.pub > ../.ssh/appworx_chemung.pub cd ../.ssh cp -p authorized_keys 00.authorized_key-DATE cat appworx_chemung.pub >> authorized_keys /usr/local/ssh2/bin/ssh ascban@doc07.cc.binghamton.edu -- If the server to connect to DOC7 s using OPEN_ssh On that server as the user to connect to DOC07. cd .ssh sftp username@doc07.cc.binghamton.edu sftp> cd .ssh sftp> put PUBKEYNAME.pub this may need to be put in authorized keys