Ssh

   1 opened up puttygen.exe

   2 generated a key after wiggling your mouse
     entered a strong passphrase
     saved the public key to something like
     pubkey

   3 saved the private key to something like
     privatekey.ppk

   4 moved your public key up to the server
    (maybe even) converted the format of the key from putty to openssh with something like
     ssh-keygen -if pubkey > pubkey_openssh_format

   5 changed some permissions like
     chmod 600 .ssh

   6 added your pubkey to the authorized_keys file with something like
     mv pubkey .ssh/authorized_keys

   7 changed your putty settings under "connection > SSH > auth" to use
     privatekey.ppk

   8 tried to connect and...