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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 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.

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Worked fine on my PuTTY, got the message after leaving an empty user at the "login as:" prompt

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.

There is a setting for it:

http://i.imgur.com/6G3NxvJ.png

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).

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