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(16/185) 32 - SFTP play nice with putty,Pageant/ssh,ssh-agent tools

The FTP/SFTP plugin can currently use a private key file to authenticate to SFTP servers. Instead of asking for the private key's password, it should check first to see if it's available from Pageant, an ssh-agent.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

Submitted	andyrossmeissl - 2007-03-02 00:58:30	Assigned
Priority	5	Labels
Status	open	Group
Resolution	None

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2008-03-31 14:32:06 andyrossmeissl	Logged In: YES user_id=871658 Originator: YES Yes, Putty includes a tool called plink that allows for automated command-line SSH connections that use its Pageant SSH agent. http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.53b/htmldoc/Chapter7.html TortoiseSVN includes a modified "silent" version of plink that may be useful to jedit.
2014-04-11 16:41:42.162000 ezust	Here is a pure-java solution: http://www.jcraft.com/jsch-agent-proxy/
2014-04-11 16:43:06.822000 ezust	- summary: SFTP option use native putty,Pageant/ssh,ssh-agent tools? --> SFTP play nice with putty,Pageant/ssh,ssh-agent tools - Group: -->
2014-04-11 16:44:18.524000 ezust	Although now that FTP plugin remembers passphrases, you no longer have to re-type your passphrase anymore, so I have a workaround that works for me.