Do you need this? : Pageant (an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP and Plink)
(from the putty download page) On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 09:07, Dustin Puryear wrote: > At 10:59 PM 7/22/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >for "putty ssh", the first result should be what you need. > > Speaking of putty, I recently started using it instead of OpenSSH under > Cygwin. My only problem is that I haven't really figured out the putty > authentication agent, or at least how to work with agent forwarding when > using Putty. Here is what I did: > > 1. Ran the putty agent and imported my OpenSSH RSA key. > 2. The putty agent prompted for my key password, which I entered and the > agent accepted. > 3. Right-click the agent, go to Saved Sessions, and choose a server that > always worked with ssh and key-agent. > 4. Putty opens and logs me right in: > > Sent username "root" > Authenticated using RSA key "XXX" from agent > > 5. Here is where things go messy: > > serverXX# ssh www2 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > > I should NOT be getting a password prompt. I should just slide right in. > > What's up? Like I said, I am used to using ssh and ssh-agent rather than > Putty, so I don't doubt I'm doing something wrong. > > > --- > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Puryear Information Technology, LLC <http://www.puryear-it.com> > Providing expertise in the management, integration, and > security of Windows and UNIX systems, networks, and applications. > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
