I use both putty and WinSCP as needed. An oversight on my part. I create the key using "ssh-keygen -t rsa1" and answer the questions for location and key. What follows is my sshd_config file. Thanks again for the help. ----------- # $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.68 2003/12/29 16:39:50 millert Exp $ # $FreeBSD: src/crypto/openssh/sshd_config,v 1.40 2004/04/20 09:37:29 des Exp $ # This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file. See # sshd_config(5) for more information. # This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin # The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with # OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where # possible, but leave them commented. Uncommented options change a # default value. # Note that some of FreeBSD's defaults differ from OpenBSD's, and # FreeBSD has a few additional options. #VersionAddendum FreeBSD-20040419 Port 22 Protocol 2 ### Listen to all incoming addresses ListenAddress 0.0.0.0 #ListenAddress ### HostKey for protocol version 1 # HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key ### HostKeys for protocol version 2 HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key # Lifetime and size of ephemeral version 1 server key KeyRegenerationInterval 1h ServerKeyBits 768 # Logging #obsoletes QuietMode and FascistLogging SyslogFacility AUTH LogLevel INFO # Authentication: LoginGraceTime 3m #PermitRootLogin yes PermitRootLogin no StrictModes yes RSAAuthentication yes PubkeyAuthentication yes AuthorizedKeysFile .ssh/authorized_keys # For this to work you will also need host keys in /etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts RhostsRSAAuthentication no # similar for protocol version 2 HostbasedAuthentication no # Change to yes if you don't trust ~/.ssh/known_hosts for # RhostsRSAAuthentication and HostbasedAuthentication IgnoreUserKnownHosts no # Don't read the user's ~/.rhosts and ~/.shosts files IgnoreRhosts yes # Change to yes to enable built-in password authentication. PasswordAuthentication no PermitEmptyPasswords no # Change to no to disable PAM authentication ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes # Kerberos options #KerberosAuthentication no #KerberosOrLocalPasswd yes #KerberosTicketCleanup yes #KerberosGetAFSToken no # GSSAPI options #GSSAPIAuthentication no #GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes # Set this to 'no' to disable PAM authentication (via challenge-response) # and session processing. UsePAM yes #AllowTcpForwarding yes GatewayPorts no X11Forwarding no X11DisplayOffset 10 X11UseLocalhost yes PrintMotd yes PrintLastLog yes TCPKeepAlive yes UseLogin no UsePrivilegeSeparation yes PermitUserEnvironment no Compression yes ClientAliveInterval 0 ClientAliveCountMax 3 ## ## Added line to speed up connecitons ( Was UseDNS yes) UseDNS no # PidFile /var/run/sshd.pid MaxStartups 10 # no default banner path Banner /etc/ssh/banner # override default of no subsystems Subsystem sftp /usr/local/libexec/sftp-server