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May 15

Pageant + Tortoise

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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

One Response to “Pageant + Tortoise”

  1. Cory Says:

    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!)

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