![]() If you are annoyed that Windows reports every time you plug in the stick that no driver could be found for “Smartcard”, you can get rid of it. That’s it, as soon as you connect to the server while pageant is running and you have the keys, you will be asked for the password of the Crypto-Stick and can log in. “Attempt authentication using Pageant” must be set, which is the default anyway. There is surprisingly little to say about PuTTY itself. I searched for the ssh-rsa entry of the auth key and added the line on the server to the authorized_keys. You can also download it separately from WinSCP download page. is also included in WinSCP installation package. SSH - Authentication Agent Steps Installation Pageant: is part of PuTTY installation package. Therefore we press CTRL while inserting the stick…Īnd then view the Pageant-PublicKeys.txt. Pageant is the SSH authentication agent of PuTTY. A possibly running pgp-agent must be terminated! Now we only need the public key we want to store in the ssh configuration of the server. If nothing is displayed here, pageant may have to be restarted or another application is already using the stick. That this is running is shown in the notification area of the taskbar.Ī double click opens the view of the current keys.Īfter inserting the key it looks like this. ![]() This mini-howto assumes that the Nitrokey has been initialized and contains cryptographic keys. Install OpenSSH Client feature The recent builds of Windows 10 and Windows 11 contain a native build of the OpenSSH binaries. PuTTY includes support for the Pageant protocol, which is used by other applications in this solution.
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