ssh-pageant

[Bill Stewart]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:00 PM Thomas Wolff wrote:

> The Cygwin package manager (setup) in the description of the ssh-pageant
> package:
> "SSH agent for Cygwin/MSYS that links to PuTTY's Pageant"

The language is a bit imprecise, I suppose. Pageant is related to but
!= PuTTY - you don't have to use PuTTY to use Pageant (you may just
prefer to use Pageant instead of ssh-agent or whatever and not use
PuTTY).

Bill