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Bug 320793 - [SSH Auth] putty agent integration for EGit
Summary: [SSH Auth] putty agent integration for EGit
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: EGit
Classification: Technology
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Reported: 2010-07-24 05:21 EDT by Pavel Samolisov CLA
Modified: 2010-08-27 12:23 EDT (History)
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Description Pavel Samolisov CLA 2010-07-24 05:21:00 EDT 
Putty is SSH-toolkit for Windows OS [1]
This toolkit contains pagent - a process that helps SSH-auth by private key. User can install a key to pagent and that will use this key for ssh auth where necessary (putty, plink, TortoiseSVN, TortoiseGit).

TortoiseGit as TortoiseSVN contains TortoisePlink - tools that can use pagent for ssh key auth, but EGit does not support this and users can't use EGit for works with repos which require private/public keys auth (GitHub for example).

GitHub this is one of most popular Git-repo and I think we shell make it's support in EGit.

[1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
Comment 1 Matthias Sohn CLA 2010-08-24 20:24:09 EDT 
EGit relies on JSch SSH implementation coming with Eclipse, so please try Preferences > General > Network Connections > SSH2. There you should be able to generate ssh keys or import existing ones. Have a look at : http://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/User_Guide#Example:_Pushing_a_Local_Repository_to_GitHub
to learn how to use this with GitHub.

Does that help ?
Comment 2 Pavel Samolisov CLA 2010-08-26 02:52:13 EDT 
Thanks Matthias. It works fine for me. I think this bug can be closed. Thanks.