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Diffstat (limited to 'ssh-agent.1')
-rw-r--r-- | ssh-agent.1 | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/ssh-agent.1 b/ssh-agent.1 index 47b1e5cc5..0aa1ecf49 100644 --- a/ssh-agent.1 +++ b/ssh-agent.1 | |||
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ | |||
1 | .\" $OpenBSD: ssh-agent.1,v 1.13 2000/07/06 04:06:56 aaron Exp $ | 1 | .\" $OpenBSD: ssh-agent.1,v 1.14 2000/08/19 21:34:43 markus Exp $ |
2 | .\" | 2 | .\" |
3 | .\" -*- nroff -*- | 3 | .\" -*- nroff -*- |
4 | .\" | 4 | .\" |
@@ -27,14 +27,15 @@ | |||
27 | .Oc | 27 | .Oc |
28 | .Sh DESCRIPTION | 28 | .Sh DESCRIPTION |
29 | .Nm | 29 | .Nm |
30 | is a program to hold private keys used for RSA authentication. | 30 | is a program to hold private keys used for public key authentication |
31 | (RSA, DSA). | ||
31 | The idea is that | 32 | The idea is that |
32 | .Nm | 33 | .Nm |
33 | is started in the beginning of an X-session or a login session, and | 34 | is started in the beginning of an X-session or a login session, and |
34 | all other windows or programs are started as clients to the ssh-agent | 35 | all other windows or programs are started as clients to the ssh-agent |
35 | program. | 36 | program. |
36 | Through use of environment variables the agent can be located | 37 | Through use of environment variables the agent can be located |
37 | and automatically used for RSA authentication when logging in to other | 38 | and automatically used for authentication when logging in to other |
38 | machines using | 39 | machines using |
39 | .Xr ssh 1 . | 40 | .Xr ssh 1 . |
40 | .Pp | 41 | .Pp |
@@ -128,7 +129,9 @@ This file is not used by | |||
128 | but is normally added to the agent using | 129 | but is normally added to the agent using |
129 | .Xr ssh-add 1 | 130 | .Xr ssh-add 1 |
130 | at login time. | 131 | at login time. |
131 | .It Pa /tmp/ssh-XXXX/agent.<pid> , | 132 | .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa |
133 | Contains the DSA authentication identity of the user. | ||
134 | .Pq Pa /tmp/ssh-XXXXXXXX/agent.<pid> , | ||
132 | Unix-domain sockets used to contain the connection to the | 135 | Unix-domain sockets used to contain the connection to the |
133 | authentication agent. | 136 | authentication agent. |
134 | These sockets should only be readable by the owner. | 137 | These sockets should only be readable by the owner. |