X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/blobdiff_plain/e2a197cf4658f554fc653403bfe8aa340ae8c2fa..f668fdf37d5b25f354c8541c1c6dda7c74cb6444:/doc/pageant.but diff --git a/doc/pageant.but b/doc/pageant.but index c1f2a825..7e8a1988 100644 --- a/doc/pageant.but +++ b/doc/pageant.but @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -\versionid $Id: pageant.but,v 1.8 2002/09/11 17:30:36 jacob Exp $ +\define{versionidpageant} \versionid $Id$ \C{pageant} Using Pageant for authentication @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ needing to type a passphrase. \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 @@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ The large list box in the Pageant main window lists the private keys that are currently loaded into Pageant. The list might look something like this: -\c ssh1 1024 22:c3:68:3b:09:41:36:c3:39:83:91:ae:71:b2:0f:04 key1 -\c ssh-rsa 1023 74:63:08:82:95:75:e1:7c:33:31:bb:cb:00:c0:89:8b key2 +\c ssh1 1024 22:c3:68:3b:09:41:36:c3:39:83:91:ae:71:b2:0f:04 k1 +\c ssh-rsa 1023 74:63:08:82:95:75:e1:7c:33:31:bb:cb:00:c0:89:8b k2 For each key, the list box will tell you: @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ Pageant can automatically load one or more private keys when it 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. @@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ loaded. 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 @@ -154,11 +154,7 @@ server machine to talk to the agent on your client machine. 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