Connecting to a Server Through Xagent

To Set Xshell to Use Xagent:

1. Open the Session Properties dialog box.
2. Select [Connection > SSH] from [Category].
3. Select [Use Xagent (SSH agent) for handling passphrase].
4. Click [OK].

To Connect with SSH Server Through Xagent:

1. Set Xshell to use Xagent.
2. Execute Xagent if Xagent is not running.
3. Connect to SSH server. In this case, the SSH server must support public key user authentication and the public key section of the user key must be registered on the server.
4. Passphrase dialog box is displayed. Enter passphrase of the selected user key.

• Note
  When selecting [Launch Xagent automatically] in [Connection > SSH] setting, the process in No. 2 above may be omitted. Passphrase dialog box is displayed only when the selected key status is Close. You can check user key status in Xagent user keys list.
• Note
  Xshell will attempt to authenticate into the server by cycling through the keys managed by Xagent. Because multiple attempts may need to be made before a key match is found, authetentication may fail if the number of attempts exceeds the server's defined limit. In this case, the number of allowable authentication attempts can be increased on the server or the number of keys must be adjusted in Xagent.