On Jun 12, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Schuberth, Sebastian wrote:
This is the only way I use plink, I never call plink with a hostname.
Using plink with PuTTY sessions also has the advantage that you do not
need to have pageant running in the background, as you can directly
specify in the session's settings which private key to use.
The idea of pageant is to ease handling of keys that are protected by
a passphrase. Pageant decrypts the keys and keeps the decrypted version
only in RAM. Thus unprotected private keys are never stored on disk.
Using pageant greatly increases *security* of your keys. I suppose this
cannot be achieved using sessions.
Steffen
