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Strictly speaking, it didn't fail; PuTTY on Windows works a bit differently from command-line ssh on OS X/Linux, and doesn't show you everything. It brings you

Strictly speaking, it didn't fail; PuTTY on Windows works a bit differently from command-line ssh on OS X/Linux, and doesn't show you everything. It brings you directly to a "login as:" prompt after throwing up a dialog about missing/unknown keys. What you were supposed to see never made it to the screen.

NotHereNotThere 11y ago
Worked fine on my PuTTY, got the message after leaving an empty user at the "login as:" prompt
- morganvachon 11y ago
  Interesting. When I tried it at work earlier (Windows 7, latest PuTTY) it closed out the window without showing anything. I just tried it at home (Windows 10, latest PuTTY) and it worked as you said.
  - egeozcan 11y ago
    There is a setting for it: http://i.imgur.com/6G3NxvJ.png http://i.imgur.com/6G3NxvJ.png
    - morganvachon 11y ago
      Right there in front of me. Now I'm wondering when and why I changed that behavior at home (I'm assuming the "Only on clean exit" setting is the default).