- (djm) OpenBSD CVS Sync

   - marc@cvs.openbsd.org 2003/01/21 18:14:36
     [ssh-agent.1 ssh-agent.c]
     Add a -t life option to ssh-agent that set the default lifetime.
     The default can still be overriden by using -t in ssh-add.
     OK markus@

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ssh-agent.1 b/ssh-agent.1
index 0227436c1..98f9dc80d 100644
--- a/ssh-agent.1
+++ b/ssh-agent.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-agent.1,v 1.35 2002/06/24 13:12:23 markus Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-agent.1,v 1.36 2003/01/21 18:14:36 marc Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
 .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 .Nm ssh-agent
 .Op Fl a Ar bind_address
 .Op Fl c Li | Fl s
+.Op Fl t Ar life
 .Op Fl d
 .Op Ar command Op Ar args ...
 .Nm ssh-agent
@@ -86,6 +87,14 @@ does not look like it's a csh style of shell.
 Kill the current agent (given by the
 .Ev SSH_AGENT_PID
 environment variable).
+.It Fl t Ar life
+Set a default value for the maximum lifetime of identities added to the agent. 
+The lifetime may be specified in seconds or in a time format specified in
+.Xr sshd 8 .
+A lifetime specified for an identity with
+.Xr ssh-add 1
+overrides this value.
+Without this option the default maximum lifetime is forever.
 .It Fl d
 Debug mode.  When this option is specified
 .Nm