[X2Go-Dev] Support for PuTTY private key files / built-in ssh-agent?

[Stefan Baur]

Hi Devs,

would it be possible to integrate support (1) for PuTTY-style ssh 
private key files (*.ppk) into the X2Go client, or (2) to run a 
ssh-agent (maybe from cygwin, or copied from PuTTY's "pageant.exe") 
*within* the X2Go client, so other applications can authenticate with 
the same key?

PuTTY's license does allow copying their code into GPLed code, as it seems.

The idea behind (2) this is that the X2Go client on Windows would be 
able to provide authentication information to WinSCP and similar tools.
(1) would simply make life easier for users that already have a private 
key stored in PuTTY's format.
At present they either have to run PuTTYgen to convert it into the 
format X2Go client understands, or run pageant.exe, PuTTY's ssh agent.

-Stefan