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They sent me a .ppk key and a passphrase for their server. Pageant on Windows accepts this passphrase and opens a key. But when I try to actually connect to the server I have problems.

$ ssh -i '/home/foo/bar.ppk' johnappleseed@example.com
  Enter passphrase for key '/home/foo/bar.ppk': 
  Enter passphrase for key '/home/foo/bar.ppk': 
  Enter passphrase for key '/home/foo/bar.ppk': 
  johnappleseed@example.com's password:

Everytime I enter the passphrase it acts like that phrase is wrong. And then server just asks for my password. Can anybody explain a noob what is the problem in here?

Connecting with PuTTY on Windows I gets an error our key was refused

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I had to convert my .ppk to openssh

sudo apt-get install putty-tools
puttygen id_dsa.ppk -O private-openssh -o id_dsa

Thanks to this answer.

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