Hi Martin,

PuTTY supports a proxy setting, which allows you to proxy the connection to
the VM via bastion, without setting two separate SSH connections.
https://superuser.com/questions/1448180/how-to-setup-proxy-jump-with-putty
should cover that.

Martin

On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM Martin Domdey <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
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>> Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Services
>> Wikimedia Foundation
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