X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/blobdiff_plain/421406a46c2afcbfbb2ae69e9aa4b256db80e283..973612f5e86c9eaabc812a47d81c5cb14f672249:/doc/pageant.but diff --git a/doc/pageant.but b/doc/pageant.but index 0fe59407..f84fb64d 100644 --- a/doc/pageant.but +++ b/doc/pageant.but @@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ automatically from Pageant, and use it to authenticate. You can now open as many PuTTY sessions as you like without having to type your passphrase again. +(PuTTY can be configured not to try to use Pageant, but it will try +by default. See \k{config-ssh-tryagent} and +\k{using-cmdline-agentauth} for more information.) + When you want to shut down Pageant, click the right button on the Pageant icon in the System tray, and select \q{Exit} from the menu. Closing the Pageant main window does \e{not} shut down Pageant. @@ -249,7 +253,7 @@ as long as they want. However, the sysadmin of the server machine can always pretend to be you \e{on that machine}. So if you forward your agent to a server machine, then the sysadmin of that machine can access the forwarded -agent connection and request signatures from your public keys, and +agent connection and request signatures from your private keys, and can therefore log in to other machines as you. They can only do this to a limited extent - when the agent forwarding disappears they lose the ability - but using Pageant doesn't actually \e{prevent} the