PuTTY 0.68 has been released

Re:PuTTY 0.68 has been released by sbuttgereit on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @06:02PM (#13701025)

I don't use PuTTY either for the same reasons as you, but I do continue to use Pageant. I use a mix of Windows and Linux tools and I only really want to enter my SSH cert credentials at start-up. So I still end up installing it.

I also use Bitvise for tunneling on the Windows side as well.

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Re:PuTTY 0.68 has been released by fetbaffe on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @03:55AM (#13704171)

You can use Pageant with oter tools than Putty's own tools?

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Re:PuTTY 0.68 has been released by sbuttgereit on Thursday February 23, 2017 @04:26PM (#13717954)

Sort of... the Bitvise SSH client I use for tunneling, it comes out of box understanding that Pageant is an available agent and will reference it; a lot of tools know that PuTTY is common and therefore expect the tools to be present.

With git and tools that use Git, PuTTY distributes plink.exe, which acts as a helper. So you set something like...

  GIT_SSH=c:\Program Files\Putty\plink.exe

To make that happen. So PuTTY is not my shell, but is still pretty important for its good set of overall tools.

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