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I'm running PuTTY's pageant v0.78, which supports named pipes on Windows, per https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/pageant-named-pipe.html.

My question is... how do I find out the name of the pipe that pageant is using?

neubert
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Start Pageant with the option --openssh-config pageant.conf. It will write an OpenSSH-compatible configuration file to the specified path, which you can later Include from your main OpenSSH config file or read from other tools:

{~\.ssh} > cat .\pageant.conf
IdentityAgent \\.\pipe\pageant.User.ba27892<...>825bc78

{~.ssh} > cat .\config
Include ~/.ssh/pageant.conf

(The generated config unfortunately doesn't quite work with Windows OpenSSH, which expects backslashes to be quoted somehow.)

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