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author | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2005-01-04 13:07:27 +0000 |
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committer | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2005-01-04 13:07:27 +0000 |
commit | fd0f611b70a83d80fe8793af785542ee5541b7cd (patch) | |
tree | bededd22bb7eeec52e20083237ab7e4113445a16 /ssh-agent.0 | |
parent | c44fe9a5b9d3db96a7249b04d915f17e4a3a3b04 (diff) | |
parent | ebd2ce335af5861020c79fddb1ae35c03bf036cf (diff) |
Merge 3.9p1 to the trunk.
Diffstat (limited to 'ssh-agent.0')
-rw-r--r-- | ssh-agent.0 | 18 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/ssh-agent.0 b/ssh-agent.0 index 8967f76a9..c2d7efa57 100644 --- a/ssh-agent.0 +++ b/ssh-agent.0 | |||
@@ -60,12 +60,16 @@ DESCRIPTION | |||
60 | can thus use the privileges given by the identities anywhere in the net- | 60 | can thus use the privileges given by the identities anywhere in the net- |
61 | work in a secure way. | 61 | work in a secure way. |
62 | 62 | ||
63 | There are two main ways to get an agent set up: Either the agent starts a | 63 | There are two main ways to get an agent set up: The first is that the |
64 | new subcommand into which some environment variables are exported, or the | 64 | agent starts a new subcommand into which some environment variables are |
65 | agent prints the needed shell commands (either sh(1) or csh(1) syntax can | 65 | exported, eg ssh-agent xterm &. The second is that the agent prints the |
66 | be generated) which can be evalled in the calling shell. Later ssh(1) | 66 | needed shell commands (either sh(1) or csh(1) syntax can be generated) |
67 | looks at these variables and uses them to establish a connection to the | 67 | which can be evalled in the calling shell, eg eval `ssh-agent -s` for |
68 | agent. | 68 | Bourne-type shells such as sh(1) or ksh(1) and eval `ssh-agent -c` for |
69 | csh(1) and derivatives. | ||
70 | |||
71 | Later ssh(1) looks at these variables and uses them to establish a con- | ||
72 | nection to the agent. | ||
69 | 73 | ||
70 | The agent will never send a private key over its request channel. In- | 74 | The agent will never send a private key over its request channel. In- |
71 | stead, operations that require a private key will be performed by the | 75 | stead, operations that require a private key will be performed by the |
@@ -111,4 +115,4 @@ AUTHORS | |||
111 | ated OpenSSH. Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH protocol | 115 | ated OpenSSH. Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH protocol |
112 | versions 1.5 and 2.0. | 116 | versions 1.5 and 2.0. |
113 | 117 | ||
114 | OpenBSD 3.5 September 25, 1999 2 | 118 | OpenBSD 3.6 September 25, 1999 2 |