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Fun fact: The ssh-agent equivalent for Windows that ships with PuTTY (pageant) has a limited amount of memory reserved to store the actual keys (8kb) which caus
by Mahn 10y ago
Fun fact: The ssh-agent equivalent for Windows that ships with PuTTY (pageant) has a limited amount of memory reserved to store the actual keys (8kb) which causes it to stop responding when more than 25 keys or so are used. Because they have no GitHub, no easy way to collaborate on the source, and the developers don't reply emails, this has gone unfixed for years, and even though PuTTY is open source and you can fix it yourself and use your build (which we did), the worst is that we quickly found out that almost every independent tool on Windows that relays on SSH copy pasted the source of PuTTY almost verbatim, since we found this bug in many places afterwards, including closed source applications.
Bottom line, set your workflow on Linux or at least bash for Windows if you manage or plan to manage many machines.
- gkya 10y agoNo Github, so what? If it was on Github but developers still unresponsive, what whould've changed? You'd still need to fork and/or publish your patch somewhere.
- crazysim 10y agoI guess if it was on Github, the unresponsiveness of the developers or the project would be much, much more visible.
- dschulz 10y ago"relays on" != "relies on"
- Mahn 10y agoYeah, sorry, that was a typo, I noticed it too late, HN won't let me edit it now.
- kodfodrasz 10y agoI use KeeAgent plugin for KeePass. It works OK for me, even for git, when setting GIT_SSH to plink.exe https://github.com/dlech/KeeAgent https://github.com/dlech/KeeAgent About the attitude of the PuTTY authors: I have read similiar stories already.
- INTPenis 10y agoI very rarely use Windows but one particular client has a VPN that only works in Windows so I recently switched from Kitty to Cygwin and am much happier. Configured mintty with solarized colors, source code pro font and it's as good as it gets on Windows.
- emmelaich 10y agoLove mintty with solarized!
- voltagex_ 10y agoWhat's the easiest way to test this? What was the fix? I'd like to check/fix PuTTYTray, although I currently use a nightly version of PuTTY for ECDSA support.