socatplayer vs winssh-pageant

socatplayer

By inivekin

winssh-pageant

Bridge to Windows OpenSSH agent from Pageant. This means the openssh agent has the keys and this proxies pageant requests to it. (by ndbeals)

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socatplayer		winssh-pageant
	Project
1	Mentions	4
-	Stars	234
-	Growth	-
-	Activity	3.3
-	Latest Commit	4 months ago
	Language	Go
-	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

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socatplayer

Posts with mentions or reviews of socatplayer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-27.

Socket Cat
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2021

https://gitlab.com/inivekin/socatplayer/-/releases
So if you're commonly doing a socat process like:

winssh-pageant

Posts with mentions or reviews of winssh-pageant. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-12.

What SSH / terminal tool are we using?
2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 12 Jul 2023
We need better support for SSH host certificates
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Mar 2023

[3] https://github.com/ndbeals/winssh-pageant/releases
Show HN: WinSSH-Pageant, Bridge Pageant Protocol Key Requests to OpenSSH Agent
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Mar 2022
Socket Cat
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Mar 2021

Just to throw another one of these bridge applications into the mix, here is one that allows Pageant apps to communicate with Windows' native ssh-agent.
https://github.com/ndbeals/winssh-pageant
I use both this and rupor's wsl-ssh-agent from the other thread extensively.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing socatplayer and winssh-pageant you can also consider the following projects:

tunnel-wireguard-udp2tcp - Tunnel WireGuard UDP traffic over TCP using socat

wsl-ssh-pageant - A Pageant -> TCP bridge for use with WSL, allowing for Pageant to be used as an ssh-ageant within the WSL environment.

rlwrap - A readline wrapper

wsl-ssh-agent - Helper to interface with Windows ssh-agent.exe service from Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

carbonyl - Chromium running inside your terminal

kubernetes - Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

webssh2 - Web SSH Client using ssh2, socket.io, xterm.js, and express. webssh webssh2

trzsz-ssh - trzsz-ssh ( tssh ) is an alternative to ssh client, offers additional useful features, such as login prompt, trzsz ( trz / tsz ), batch login, remember password, zmodem ( rz / sz ), etc.