-\versionid $Id: pageant.but,v 1.8 2002/09/11 17:30:36 jacob Exp $
+\versionid $Id: pageant.but,v 1.10 2003/02/11 14:10:20 simon Exp $
\C{pageant} Using Pageant for authentication
\H{pageant-start} Getting started with Pageant
-Before you run Pageant, you need to have a private key. See
-\k{pubkey} to find out how to generate and use one.
+Before you run Pageant, you need to have a private key in \c{*.PPK}
+format. See \k{pubkey} to find out how to generate and use one.
When you run Pageant, it will put an icon of a computer wearing a
hat into the System tray. It will then sit and do nothing, until you
starts up, if you provide them on the Pageant command line. Your
command line might then look like:
-\c C:\PuTTY\pageant.exe d:\main.key d:\secondary.key
+\c C:\PuTTY\pageant.exe d:\main.ppk d:\secondary.ppk
If the keys are stored encrypted, Pageant will request the
passphrases on startup.
You do this by specifying the \c{-c} option followed by the command,
like this:
-\c C:\PuTTY\pageant.exe d:\main.key -c C:\PuTTY\putty.exe
+\c C:\PuTTY\pageant.exe d:\main.ppk -c C:\PuTTY\putty.exe
\H{pageant-forward} Using agent forwarding
Note that at present, agent forwarding in SSH2 is only available
when your SSH server is OpenSSH. The \cw{ssh.com} server uses a
-different agent protocol which they have not published. If you would
-like PuTTY to be able to support agent forwarding to an \cw{ssh.com}
-server, please write to \cw{ssh.com} and explain to them that they
-are hurting themselves and their users by keeping their protocol
-secret.
+different agent protocol, which PuTTY does not yet support.
To enable agent forwarding, first start Pageant. Then set up a PuTTY
SSH session in which \q{Allow agent forwarding} is enabled (see