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Use Pageant with Windows OpenSSH when connecting over SSH from PowerShell

I've been using Pageant for handling SSH keys with Git (so that I only enter the key passphrase once) via setting the GIT_SSH environment variable. What I want to do now is to use Pageant for regular SSH connections from my PowerShell terminal via…
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Pageant - Win 10 - Cannot load keys on startup

If I run pageant and add keys, there is no problem. The key gets loaded without issues. If I create a shortcut to run pageant and load the keys at the same time, like so: "C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\pageant.exe" H:\keys\key.ppk Then I get the…
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Can I store multiple private keys in one Putty PPK file?

I have multiple accounts on a server, say for example red webadmin testuser At the moment I have private keys for these in separate PPK files. I have shortcuts to these on the desktop - so clicking the desktop icon launches Pageant and prompts for…
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How can I use the ~/.ssh/config file with Pageant under windows?

I am using Pageant on my Windows machine to manage my SSH key. I have used ssh-agent before, but since Vagrant does not use ssh but net-ssh on vagrant up/provisioning I need to have my key in Pageant to use agent forwarding there. I heavily use my…
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Putty not able to connect using private keys with Pageant

I've been wrestling with the issue for couple of days, but have no progress. The anomaly started suddenly a few days ago, everything worked perfectly before on Windows 10. Problem: Need to connect to SSH service using Putty. Pageant has the correct…
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How can I configure FileZilla to first try the provided password before trying private keys?

I use FileZilla 3.29.0 on Windows 7 SP1 x64 Ultimate. Amongst the SFTP servers, I connect to, some of them use password authentication, and others use private keys. I use Pageant to manage the private keys. When connecting to an SFTP server that…
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Using Plink with Pageant in the Windows Task scheduler

On a Windows machine, I have a script that starts a Linux server, performs a backup, and finally shuts down the server. The script uses Plink with public key authentication to run the shutdown command on the server. The private key is supplied by…
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determining the named pipe that PuTTY's pageant is using

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?
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ssh key authentication working for some and some not

we have BoKS authentication where public key is placed in BoKS db and private key is mapped in putty and pushing it through pageant. issue: working for some servers and for some not (observation: working for servers which are not logged in…
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Pageant fails to auto-start on Windows 10

I have the following shortcut in c:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\ C:\prog\PuTTY\pageant.exe c:\my\.ssh\some-key.ppk c:\my\.ssh\other-key.ppk It used to start ok, but in Windows 10 it opens the folder…
Vladimir Alexiev
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Pageant - reports error "can't open file" but loads keys anyway

I'm using Pageant 0.70 to load keys on Windows 10 via a PowerShell script: profile-file.ps1 $pageant-path = "c:\full-path-to-pageant.exe" $keypath1 = c:\full-path-to-key1 $keypath2 = c:\full-path-to-key2 $keypath3 = c:\full-path-to-key3 init.ps1 #…
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How can I automatically start an SSH tunnel when I put in my Pageant password?

I need an SSH tunnel for my VNC to work. Currently I have a PuTTY connection that creates the tunnel, but which requires Pageant to authenticate. I also have Pageant, VNCc, and PuTTY in my Windows startup. The annoyance for me is that PuTTY can't…
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Is Pageant applying the entered passphrase too few keys in a row on purpose?

In another question I asked about passphrases and the mechanism against being compromised in the case of a huge amount of sample data. What brought me here is Pageant, which remembers the passphrase entered on the one key and applies it to the other…
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Pageant doesn't work with tortoise SVN and putty authentication

I followed this youtube tutorial to try to install tortoise svn on Windows and commit on a unix remote server. I don't want tortoise to ask me for my password on every commit. This tutorial works fine, but even when pageant is configured with a…
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Pageant fails to generate OpenSSH Config

I want to be able to use the SSH Keys loaded in Pageant when using the built-in Open SSH client. I tried running the command pageant.exe --openssh-config %USERPROFILE%\.ssh\pageant.conf like in the answer from the question Using pageant with VSCode…
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