Hi,

I have to use PuTTY on Windows 11 for SSH from bastion-eqiad1-5 to
taxonbot4.dwl.eqiad1.wikimedia.cloud - that's why I needed a SSH agent.

I know no other way to ssh a session than PuTTY. What can I do know to get
access? I have to work on bot codes.

Kind regards
Martin



Taavi Väänänen <[email protected]> schrieb am Di., 14. Okt. 2025, 16:34:

> Hi,
>
> Starting today, Cloud VPS hosts no longer support forwarding in your
> SSH agent[0]. This should not break any modern setups, but in case
> your access is impacted by this change, please see the documentation
> on Wikitech[1] on what to use instead. This change is being done due
> to the security risks that SSH agent forwarding have, especially in
> shared environments like Cloud VPS.
>
> [0]:
> https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/using-ssh-agent-forwarding
> [1]:
> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Accessing_Cloud_VPS_instances
>
> Taavi
>
>
> --
> Taavi Väänänen (he/him)
> Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Services
> Wikimedia Foundation
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