Questions tagged [pageant]
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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: ...
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SSH-256/512 RSA taking "long" to login
Up to now, I have been using putty + pageant 0.66 to ssh from my Win 10 client to a couple of Linux servers, as in
Comp A Comp B Comp C
Win 10, Msys2 --...
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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 ...
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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-...
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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 ...
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Is Pageant applying the entered passphrase too few keys in a row on purpose? [closed]
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 ...
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Extracting private key from PIV card
I can get the public key out of my PIV card (using PuTTy) but I am unable to get the private key, which I would like to emulate the card by running Pageant. Is there any way to get the private key out ...
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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 ...
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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)\...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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