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Pageant is an PuTTY SSH authentication agent. It holds your private keys in memory, already decoded, so that you can use them often without needing to type a passphrase

Pageant is included in PuTTY installation package. You can also download it separately. It is also included with other SSH/SFTP clients, such as WinSCP.

Documentation: Using Pageant for authentication.

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How to convert SSH keypairs generated using PuTTYgen (Windows) into key-pairs used by ssh-agent and Keychain (Linux)

I've generated key pairs using PuTTYgen and been logging in using Pageant, so that I have to enter my pass-phrase only once when my system boots. How do I achieve this in Linux? I've heard of keychain but I hear that it uses a different key pair…
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Pageant does not load SSH-2 key generated with GitBash

The implementation of key handling with (Tortoise)Git for Windows confuses me. As far as I understood, you can implement with either ssh.exe (gits own ssh program), where you can then choose an ssh key per host in your ssh_config in the 'faked' home…
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TortoiseGit and Pageant, have to "add key" every time

Background: I'm using git and TortoiseGit with github.com. My development cycle on the .git local branch goes like this: 1) Make whatever changes 2) Right-click on directory, choose "Git Commit -> branch" 3) Input the message and commit 4)…
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Using pageant with VSCode on Windows 10

I am trying to configure VSCode on my machine (Win10) to SSH to my remote servers using keys already loaded in Pageant running on the machine. One way I found is to use "wsl-ssh-pageant", however I couldn't figure how to install on my machine even…
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How to connect to SFTP through Paramiko with SSH key and Pageant

I am trying to connect to an SFTP through Paramiko with a passphrase protected SSH key. I have loaded the key into Pageant (which I understand is supported by Paramiko) but I can't get it to decrypt my private key. I have found this example here…
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git Connection abandoned, fatal: Could not read from remote repository

I'm trying to clone a repo in either cygwin or GitBash (msysgit) using Pageant for ssh keys. I get the following error: $ git clone git@github.com:username/your-project.git Cloning into 'your-project'... The server's host key is not cached in the…
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putty pageant protocol?

ssh-agent has a protocol whereby data can be sent to it to get signed by a particular private key: http://api.libssh.org/rfc/PROTOCOL.agent In Linux, with ssh-agent, you'd open a Unix domain socket to SSH_AUTH_SOCK and send the packets to that. …
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How to use Pageant with Paramiko on Windows?

I know that Paramiko supports Pageant under Windows, but it doesn't work by default. I am looking for an example of connecting using the key that is loaded in Pageant.
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Reuse in PowerShell a running PuTTY agent (pageant)

Is there a way in PS 5.1 to reuse the PuTTY agent keys? Now, the details. To use key agents one has an Agent that holds the keys (left box), and Client Applications that delegate administration of the keys (right box). E.g., client application…
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Pageant seem to have interference, does not work at all

I have a server setup with my public key and adding my private key to putty allows me to connect to the server properly. When I use pageant however, it doesn't work. My research showed that the event log with pageant running should look something…
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Sourcetree Git - SSH passphrase prompt

I have downloaded Sourcetree lately which comes with puttygen, plink and pageant. I have set up an SSH public and private key, with a non-empty passphrase. I was prompted for this passphrase when I added the private key to the Pageant key list.…
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How to grant access to IIS user

I'm working on a web app that uses SharpSVN to checkout from a repo using svn+ssh. I have configured my ssh client correctly in my AppData config file by adding the path to Plink under the [tunnels] section, but checkout requests still give me an…
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Visual Studio 2017/2019/2022 git sync/pull/push/fetch operation stuck, and cannot be stopped

I initiate sync, fetch, pull or push from the 'Git Changes' tab in Visual Studio, but the operation just hangs, with no option to stop it. I have to hit the 'X' to close Visual Studio. If the operation is a sync it opens a modal dialog over…
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How to use TortoiseHg from command line without PuTTY (Pageant)

Earlier I used Mercurial command line installation and it worked fine for me with default ssh client and keys location in ~/.ssh. On my new laptop I installed TortoiseHg. Now any remote request (like hg pull, or hg incoming) generates PuTTY Fatal…
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Plink from Windows service cannot find Pageant

I have one windows service which will use plink.exe for SSH connection and I found that Plink cannot find the running Pageant. Here is the steps I have done so far. Install Windows service to run as particular user Before starting Windows service,…
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