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Using PuTTY’s Pageant to remember the passphrase of the keys

PuTTY’s Pageant is a tool used for managing SSH authentication keys on Windows. It can store private keys in memory, allowing you to log in to servers without needing to repeatedly enter the passphrase. How to perform SSH key-based authentication with PuTTY we learned in a previous tutorial, which can be found here. Here’s how […]

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SSH key-based authentication with PuTTY

This tutorial describes how to achieve SSH key-based authentication with PuTTY. In details, describes how to generate and use a public/private key pair to achieve an SSH connection, from a Windows 10 Desktop to a remote Linux (Dedian 11) server using PuTTY. SSH connections based on RSA keys have advantages over simple SSH connections as