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| 2019-12-11 | 2020-01-13 | ||
| Restored revision 1557330671. Undoing revision 1576045748. (martin) (hidden) | update from the latest putty documentation (martin) | ||
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| Agent forwarding is a mechanism that allows applications on your SSH server machine to talk to the agent on your client machine. | Agent forwarding is a mechanism that allows applications on your SSH server machine to talk to the agent on your client machine. | ||
| - | Note that at present, agent forwarding in SSH-2 is only available when your SSH server is OpenSSH. The ssh.com server uses a different agent protocol, which WinSCP does not yet support. | + | Note that at present, whether agent forwarding in SSH-2 is available depends on your server. Pageant's protocol is compatible with the OpenSSH server, but the ssh.com server uses a different agent protocol, which WinSCP does not yet support. |
| To enable agent forwarding, first start Pageant. Then set up a WinSCP SSH session in which //[[ui_login_authentication|Allow agent forwarding]]// is enabled. Open the session as normal. | To enable agent forwarding, first start Pageant. Then set up a WinSCP SSH session in which //[[ui_login_authentication|Allow agent forwarding]]// is enabled. Open the session as normal. | ||