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Pageant is an PuTTY SSH authentication agent. It holds your private keys in memory, already decoded, so that you can use them often without needing to type a passphrase

Pageant is included in PuTTY installation package. You can also download it separately. It is also included with other SSH/SFTP clients, such as WinSCP.

Documentation: Using Pageant for authentication.

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Multiple SSH keys in Pageant cause failures when pulling from Bitbucket Git Repos

I'm having a problem very similar to the one described here. However, the difference is that I'm trying to use Pageant as my agent instead of OpenSSH. I've found that when I have the SSH keys for two different Bitbucket accounts loaded in Pageant…
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How to mount private SSH key to Docker for Windows container?

Good day everyone. I have following dev environment: Win 10 host Docker Desktop for Windows latest php5.6 image running in container via docker-compose How can I mount my private SSH key to this container? Or is there any possibility to tunnel…
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How to start processes from Azure Worker Role?

I have a very strange issue: I have an Azure Cloud Service with one Worker Role in it. In this Worker Role I would like to start a Command Line as an administrator with some arguments, which I store in the 'command' variable. It could be e.x.…
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After installing msysgit, AnkhSVN tries to use the wrong SSH executable file

I have recently installed msysgit on my machine (its running Windows 7) to use Git for some projects. A lot of my projects are under SVN, in which I use AnkhSVN in Visual Studio 2008 to commit etc. Since I have installed msysgit everytime I try to…
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Komodo Edit and SSH Private Keyfile in Pageant for Amazon EC2

I would like to use Komodo Edit to edit files on my Ubuntu Amazon EC2 instance (running Django). According to this Old Nabble from 2008 (oh boy) Komodo Edit should support SSH authentication via Pageant keyfiles. So, I imported my .pem keyfile in…
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How to list loaded SSH keys in Windows (pageant)

I'm trying to create simple Windows batch script that will manage connectivity to our client. That includes some tunnels using plink.exe and socks chain. Each hop requires ssh key authentication for which I'm using pageant.exe. I have each piece…
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Run a batch file when Pageant finishes loading SSH keys

I've written two batch files - one to launch Pageant and load my keys, and the other to ssh some files onto a remote server. Individually, the scripts work perfectly. I am trying to combine them into a single batch file, but I can't get it to…
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Visual Studio - AnkhSvn, TortoiseSVN, Pageant

I am using Visual Studio 2010 with AnkhSvn for Visual Studio work and TortoiseSVN for other legacy projects on the same machine. I connect to the SVN server using SSH keys held in PageAnt, to prevent continual prompting for my password. This works…
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How to add git server's cryptographic algorithms to my git/ssh installation?

The error I get ever since GitHub removed outdated/insecure algorithms: FATAL ERROR: Couldn't agree a key exchange algorithm (available: curve25519-sha256@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521) fatal: Could not read…
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TortoiseGit keeps asking for SSH passphrase

I have seen a few questions about this issue but I have not got things to work. I have TortoiseGit installed on a new PC. It is setup to use TortoisePlink.exe and I have the correct public/private keys setup on my computer and with BitBucket. I can…
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SSH Authentication Failed when trying to clone a git repo in SourceTree

I am trying to clone a git repo that is currently configured using SSH public/private keys rather than passwords. I can SSH into this using PuTTy and have used the following command to generate the keys (its a Unix based server). $ ssh-keygen -t rsa…
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Capistrano from Windows with Pageant

I have a simple task... cap foreman:restart. I'm able to access the server through PuTTY (which is using Pageant), but apparently Capistrano doesn't know about that? ** [out :: staging.fanmouth.com] restart: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules;…
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Can Ant using SSH encrypted private key from Pageant?

ANT do have sshexec and scp task that may read encrypted ssh private key by passing password to the task. This isn't secure at all. The Pageant from Putty stores private key that may used for SSH authentication anytime. Is there a way to make ANT…
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ant & cvs prompting password although password should come from PageAnt

I have ant build file, that should take cvs checkouts when called. I can call it ok, but when ant uses cvs to connect to cvs repo, the repo prompts for password and obviously ant command fails. I have CVSROOT environment variable pointing to same…
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Reading a private SSH key from Pageant

I'm writing a utility in C# that needs to automatically connect to a server over SSH (with SSH.NET), which has been a mostly painless process. The server forces public key authentication (The server is mine, I have full physical control) so that…
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