I am a TortoiseCVS/SVN user… and I always thought it was annoying that I had hardcoded the “-i path/to/ssh/key.ppk” in the CVS preferences. I always wanted Tortoise to be able to save a key linked to a CVSROOT.
Anyway, I was shown pageant.exe from Putty. Tortoise will automatically look there for the key if you don’t have a -i in the extra parameters.
It is a little annoying that pageant doesn’t remember your keys, so you have to do something to work around this.
I created a shortcut in my Startup folder which points to:
pageant.exe /path/to/SSHKeys/first.ppk /path/to/SSHKeys/second.ppk …
Not perfect, but does the trick. Anything better out there?
Dion
February 28th, 2007 at 11:06 am
The only alternative is saved connections in putty. I like yours much better because it allows using existing copies to be reused (important when you’ve got a working copy of 3 gigs or so!)