August 07
With default option, putty cannot connect to OpenSSH due to authentication problem.
You can run sshd with -D or -d (debug) option, and will find that "Password authentication" is disabled while putty uses this as default authentication method.
The solutions are
1. Uncomment the PasswordAuthentication item in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and set it to yes
2. Use agent based authentication method in putty.