X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/sgt/putty/blobdiff_plain/0b1df79721bc25a7a5b6281b54af889a9402ec25..78d426c31aac19fed2ad2f62ff67a22657331513:/doc/pageant.but?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/pageant.but b/doc/pageant.but index 0fe59407..548aa8bf 100644 --- a/doc/pageant.but +++ b/doc/pageant.but @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ 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