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I wanted my putty key to have a more descriptive comment rather than just the date so I opened it up in text editor and changed it. After I did pageant wouldn't accept the password anymore.

Luckily I had it backed up. How do I change the comment without breaking it?

Guerrilla
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It seems that you need to use puttygen to do this.

Run puttygen and load the .ppk file

Key wit date comment

Then change the comment by editing the key comment field

updated key comment

Save the private key and load it into pageant

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user9517
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