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There's now a command-line option to make Pageant open an AF_UNIX socket at a pathname of your choice. This allows it to act as an SSH agent for any client program willing to use a WinSock AF_UNIX socket. In particular, this allows WSL 1 processes to talk directly to Windows Pageant without needing any intermediate process, because the AF_UNIX sockets in the WSL 1 world interoperate with WinSock's ones. (However, not WSL 2, which isn't very surprising.)
This is the README for PuTTY, a free Windows and Unix Telnet and SSH
client.
PuTTY is built using CMake <https://cmake.org/>. To compile in the
simplest way (on any of Linux, Windows or Mac), run these commands in
the source directory:
cmake .
cmake --build .
Documentation (in various formats including Windows Help and Unix
`man' pages) is built from the Halibut (`.but') files in the `doc'
subdirectory using `doc/Makefile'. If you aren't using one of our
source snapshots, you'll need to do this yourself. Halibut can be
found at <https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/halibut/>.
The PuTTY home web site is
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
If you want to send bug reports or feature requests, please read the
Feedback section of the web site before doing so. Sending one-line
reports saying `it doesn't work' will waste your time as much as
ours.
See the file LICENCE for the licence conditions.