Set Pageant to Auto-Start on Windows Boot and Load Keys

Scenario

When using Linux, ssh and git are very convenient, because a single ssh-add is enough once and for all; later when authentication is needed, ssh-agent will take care of it for us, without needing to enter the key password.

Actually, Windows can also achieve this kind of productivity liberation, by using Pageant from the tools that come with PuTTY.

Pageant is mainly responsible for authenticating with the server, but each time after starting Pageant you need to manually load the key file. This article introduces how to make Pageant automatically load keys on boot.

Install PuTTY

Official site: https://www.putty.org/

Just download and install, and you're done.

Auto-start Pageant on Boot

Windows 7

First open the Windows 7 startup folder: Win key -> All Programs -> Startup -> right-click -> Open,

Windows 10

In the address bar of a This PC window, enter

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp

You can also press Win+R and enter: shell:startup to open the startup folder

Then find the location of pageant.exe, right-click -> Create shortcut, and a pageant.exe shortcut will appear in the directory

Drag the shortcut into the startup folder mentioned above

Make Pageant Automatically Load Key Files

First, the key file that Pageant needs to load is a ppk file generated by puttygen.exe from an SSH private key. If you don't have one, run puttygen.exe first to generate it~

Find the Pageant shortcut we created in the first step, right-click it, and in the dialog that appears, select the "Shortcut" tab, find the "Target" field, which should show the program path

"C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin\pageant.exe"

Then append the private key file id_rsa.ppk after it, as follows:

"C:\Program Files\TortoiseGit\bin\pageant.exe" "C:\Users\[你的用户名]\.ssh\id_rsa.ppk"

Click OK to save, and you're done.

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