1. Run the Pageant daemon that will listen to a putty SSH connection.
  2. Right click the Pageant icon from the taskbar that can be identified like the following:
  3. Select Add Key.
  4. Browse and select the target private key (i.e. ppk file).
    Note: If you don’t have a private key generated you can follow the procedure from Generating Putty SSH Key Pair.
  5. Supply the passphrase of the key if required.

Passing the Private Key upon running the Pageant Daemon

Every time at a pageant daemon was started the private key must be added. To simplify this, we can add the private key as a parameter on the target field of the shortcut of the pageant daemon like the following:

"<PAGEANT_EXECUTABLE>" "<PRIVATE_KEY>"

Example

Where the fields are defined as:

<PAGEANT_EXECUTABLE> is "C:\putty\bin\pageant.exe"<PRIVATE_KEY> is "C:\private-key.ppk"

Note: If the key has a passphrase it must be provided every time.