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 >> >> >> -- >> Taavi Väänänen (he/him) >> Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud Services >> Wikimedia Foundation >> _______________________________________________ >> Cloud-announce mailing list -- [email protected] >> List information: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/ >> > _______________________________________________ > Cloud mailing list -- [email protected] > List information: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/cloud.lists.wikimedia.org/ >
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