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+ | ====== SSH Agent ====== | ||
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+ | The ssh-agent is a tool that can safely store your ssh-keys in memory and serve it when it is needed by an ssh session. And even more: The ssh-agent can be forwarded to other machines, so that if you open a new ssh session on a remote machine, the key can be fetched from the agent on your local machine. | ||
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+ | And to make it a bit more tangible: If you are outside of the [[en: | ||
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+ | The main implementation of an ssh-agent on windows is pageant, which is part of PuTTY. Once you add your key to the agent, it will be available for PuTTY, MobaXTerm and XWin32. It doesn' | ||
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+ | Here is a short video on how to add your key to pageant and enable Agent forwarding in PuTTY: | ||
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