Chapter 9: Using Pageant for authentication

Pageant is an SSH authentication agent. It holds your private keys in memory, already decoded, so that you can use them often without needing to type a passphrase.

• 9.1 Getting started with Pageant
• 9.2 The Pageant main window
  • 9.2.1 The key list box
  • 9.2.2 The ‘Add Key’ button
  • 9.2.3 The ‘Remove Key’ button
• 9.3 The Pageant command line
  • 9.3.1 Making Pageant automatically load keys on startup
  • 9.3.2 Making Pageant run another program
  • 9.3.3 Integrating with Windows OpenSSH
  • 9.3.4 Unix-domain sockets: integrating with WSL 1
  • 9.3.5 Starting with the key list visible
  • 9.3.6 Restricting the Windows process ACL
• 9.4 Using agent forwarding
• 9.5 Loading keys without decrypting them
• 9.6 Security considerations