WinCrypt not working anymore as pageant

[brain246]

WinCrypt not working anymore as pageant

[brain246]

I fixed the issue myself or more like found a workaround: After starting KeePass/KeeAgent with admninistrator privileges everything works again.

[dlech]

Since you are using client mode, I don't think there is anything we can do in KeeAgent. I'm guessing you are running Pagent as an admin?

[brain246]

Since you are using client mode, I don't think there is anything we can do in KeeAgent. I'm guessing you are running Pagent as an admin?

That's the odd thing: I am not running the pageant as admin. But the company policies and the way they handle local admin privileges (my user isn't admin per se anymore, but can request admin privileges for certain actions/processes) seems to make a difference here. But it is working now, so you can close this issue, maybe it is of some help for others in the future though.

Thanks for the fast response and have a nice day (or evening wherever you are) :)

[brain246]

Just wanted to add something here: In fact i was running WinCryptAgent with admin privileges (that was set in the exe properties -> advanced, i somehow had forgotten that). The issue was however, that when not running it with admin rights, KeeAgent wasn't able to add the keys to the agent (same thing happened by the way with putty/pageant).

In the end i ended up using KeeAgent in Agent mode (with OpenSSH enabled) and the WSL2 part i solved with npiperelay.exe and wsl-ssh-agent-relay as described here.

That works now in any Windows Shell, WSL2 (Bash and Fish) and also in Git-Bash (Git for Windows).