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NOTE: When entering the proxy username, you might be required to add the domain name in front of the username.
Install Putty and Generate Keys
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An alternate method for creating public and private keys, without using PuTTY, is given here: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent/ |
NOTE: If you already have keys registered with PuTTY, skip this section.
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Execute the .msi file. Use all the default settings, thereby ensuring that you will install pageant.exe, plink.exe, and puttygen.exe.
Generate Public and Private Keys
The puttygen utility, installed with putty, generates public and private keys used for secure communication with Gerrit.
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If you want to edit this key pair in the future, create a text file containing a short phrase, called a "passphrase". Copy and paste this passphrase into the "Key passphrase" and "Confirm passphrase" lines, then select "Save public key" and choose a filename (e.g. public.txt); also "Save private key" and choose another filename (e.g. private.ppk). Since you ran puttygen as Administrator, the files are visible to Windows Explorer.
Close puttygen.
Load Your Private Key Into Pageant
Pageant is an SSH authentication agent. It holds your private keys in memory, already decoded, so that you can use them often without needing to type a passphrase.
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