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Why does TortoisePlink.exe show "No supported authentication methods available" where plink.exe works fine?

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Mar 15, 202612391 views
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Problem

I have both TortoiseHg 2.3 64 bit and TortoiseGit 1.7.7 64 bit installed on Vista 64 bit. Both TortoiseHg ( entry in ) and TortoiseGit ( environment variable set to ) are configured to use PuTTy's plink (command-line interface to the PuTTY back ends) versions distributed with them. I have Pageant (…

Error Output

ssh = "C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg\TortoisePlink.exe" -ssh -2 -C -batch

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Fix for: Why does TortoisePlink.exe show "No supported authentication methods available" where plink.exe works fine?

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There is a problem with 64-bit TortoiseSVN working with 32-bit pageant. Either use 32-bit TortoiseSVN (IMO there is no real need for it to be 64-bit). Unofficially, the devs only supply 32-bit binaries. A 64-bit build of PuTTY is available here. It …

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