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Diffstat (limited to 'ssh-add.0')
| -rw-r--r-- | ssh-add.0 | 29 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 13 deletions
| @@ -5,17 +5,20 @@ NAME | |||
| 5 | 5 | ||
| 6 | SYNOPSIS | 6 | SYNOPSIS |
| 7 | ssh-add [-cDdLlXx] [-t life] [file ...] | 7 | ssh-add [-cDdLlXx] [-t life] [file ...] |
| 8 | ssh-add -s reader | 8 | ssh-add -s pkcs11 |
| 9 | ssh-add -e reader | 9 | ssh-add -e pkcs11 |
| 10 | 10 | ||
| 11 | DESCRIPTION | 11 | DESCRIPTION |
| 12 | ssh-add adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent, | 12 | ssh-add adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent, |
| 13 | ssh-agent(1). When run without arguments, it adds the files | 13 | ssh-agent(1). When run without arguments, it adds the files |
| 14 | ~/.ssh/id_rsa, ~/.ssh/id_dsa and ~/.ssh/identity. Alternative file names | 14 | ~/.ssh/id_rsa, ~/.ssh/id_dsa and ~/.ssh/identity. After loading a pri- |
| 15 | can be given on the command line. If any file requires a passphrase, | 15 | vate key, ssh-add will try to load corresponding certificate information |
| 16 | ssh-add asks for the passphrase from the user. The passphrase is read | 16 | from the filename obtained by appending -cert.pub to the name of the pri- |
| 17 | from the user's tty. ssh-add retries the last passphrase if multiple | 17 | vate key file. Alternative file names can be given on the command line. |
| 18 | identity files are given. | 18 | |
| 19 | If any file requires a passphrase, ssh-add asks for the passphrase from | ||
| 20 | the user. The passphrase is read from the user's tty. ssh-add retries | ||
| 21 | the last passphrase if multiple identity files are given. | ||
| 19 | 22 | ||
| 20 | The authentication agent must be running and the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environ- | 23 | The authentication agent must be running and the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environ- |
| 21 | ment variable must contain the name of its socket for ssh-add to work. | 24 | ment variable must contain the name of its socket for ssh-add to work. |
| @@ -37,8 +40,8 @@ DESCRIPTION | |||
| 37 | matching keys will be removed from the agent. If no public key | 40 | matching keys will be removed from the agent. If no public key |
| 38 | is found at a given path, ssh-add will append .pub and retry. | 41 | is found at a given path, ssh-add will append .pub and retry. |
| 39 | 42 | ||
| 40 | -e reader | 43 | -e pkcs11 |
| 41 | Remove key in smartcard reader. | 44 | Remove keys provided by the PKCS#11 shared library pkcs11. |
| 42 | 45 | ||
| 43 | -L Lists public key parameters of all identities currently repre- | 46 | -L Lists public key parameters of all identities currently repre- |
| 44 | sented by the agent. | 47 | sented by the agent. |
| @@ -46,8 +49,8 @@ DESCRIPTION | |||
| 46 | -l Lists fingerprints of all identities currently represented by the | 49 | -l Lists fingerprints of all identities currently represented by the |
| 47 | agent. | 50 | agent. |
| 48 | 51 | ||
| 49 | -s reader | 52 | -s pkcs11 |
| 50 | Add key in smartcard reader. | 53 | Add keys provided by the PKCS#11 shared library pkcs11. |
| 51 | 54 | ||
| 52 | -t life | 55 | -t life |
| 53 | Set a maximum lifetime when adding identities to an agent. The | 56 | Set a maximum lifetime when adding identities to an agent. The |
| @@ -70,7 +73,7 @@ ENVIRONMENT | |||
| 70 | to redirect the input from /dev/null to make this work.) | 73 | to redirect the input from /dev/null to make this work.) |
| 71 | 74 | ||
| 72 | SSH_AUTH_SOCK | 75 | SSH_AUTH_SOCK |
| 73 | Identifies the path of a unix-domain socket used to communicate | 76 | Identifies the path of a UNIX-domain socket used to communicate |
| 74 | with the agent. | 77 | with the agent. |
| 75 | 78 | ||
| 76 | FILES | 79 | FILES |
| @@ -103,4 +106,4 @@ AUTHORS | |||
| 103 | ated OpenSSH. Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH protocol | 106 | ated OpenSSH. Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH protocol |
| 104 | versions 1.5 and 2.0. | 107 | versions 1.5 and 2.0. |
| 105 | 108 | ||
| 106 | OpenBSD 4.6 June 12, 2007 2 | 109 | OpenBSD 4.6 March 5, 2010 2 |