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f3c7c613 | 1 | .\" $OpenBSD: ssh-add.1,v 1.22 2001/03/02 18:54:31 deraadt Exp $ |
23c2a7a5 | 2 | .\" |
bf740959 | 3 | .\" -*- nroff -*- |
4 | .\" | |
bf740959 | 5 | .\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi> |
bf740959 | 6 | .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland |
7 | .\" All rights reserved | |
8 | .\" | |
bcbf86ec | 9 | .\" As far as I am concerned, the code I have written for this software |
10 | .\" can be used freely for any purpose. Any derived versions of this | |
11 | .\" software must be clearly marked as such, and if the derived work is | |
12 | .\" incompatible with the protocol description in the RFC file, it must be | |
13 | .\" called by a name other than "ssh" or "Secure Shell". | |
14 | .\" | |
15 | .\" | |
f3c7c613 | 16 | .\" Copyright (c) 1999,2000 Markus Friedl. All rights reserved. |
17 | .\" Copyright (c) 1999 Aaron Campbell. All rights reserved. | |
18 | .\" Copyright (c) 1999 Theo de Raadt. All rights reserved. | |
bcbf86ec | 19 | .\" |
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bf740959 | 28 | .\" |
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bf740959 | 39 | .\" |
40 | .Dd September 25, 1999 | |
41 | .Dt SSH-ADD 1 | |
42 | .Os | |
43 | .Sh NAME | |
44 | .Nm ssh-add | |
2e73a022 | 45 | .Nd adds RSA or DSA identities for the authentication agent |
bf740959 | 46 | .Sh SYNOPSIS |
47 | .Nm ssh-add | |
f095fcc7 | 48 | .Op Fl lLdD |
bf740959 | 49 | .Op Ar |
f54651ce | 50 | .Sh DESCRIPTION |
bf740959 | 51 | .Nm |
2e73a022 | 52 | adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent, |
bf740959 | 53 | .Xr ssh-agent 1 . |
54 | When run without arguments, it adds the file | |
55 | .Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity . | |
4fe2af09 | 56 | Alternative file names can be given on the command line. |
57 | If any file requires a passphrase, | |
bf740959 | 58 | .Nm |
f54651ce | 59 | asks for the passphrase from the user. |
4fe2af09 | 60 | The Passphrase it is read from the user's tty. |
bf740959 | 61 | .Pp |
62 | The authentication agent must be running and must be an ancestor of | |
63 | the current process for | |
64 | .Nm | |
65 | to work. | |
66 | .Pp | |
67 | The options are as follows: | |
68 | .Bl -tag -width Ds | |
69 | .It Fl l | |
f095fcc7 | 70 | Lists fingerprints of all identities currently represented by the agent. |
71 | .It Fl L | |
72 | Lists public key parameters of all identities currently represented by the agent. | |
bf740959 | 73 | .It Fl d |
74 | Instead of adding the identity, removes the identity from the agent. | |
75 | .It Fl D | |
76 | Deletes all identities from the agent. | |
77 | .El | |
78 | .Sh FILES | |
79 | .Bl -tag -width Ds | |
57112b5a | 80 | .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity |
4fe2af09 | 81 | Contains the RSA authentication identity of the user. |
82 | This file should not be readable by anyone but the user. | |
bf740959 | 83 | Note that |
84 | .Nm | |
85 | ignores this file if it is accessible by others. | |
86 | It is possible to | |
87 | specify a passphrase when generating the key; that passphrase will be | |
4fe2af09 | 88 | used to encrypt the private part of this file. |
89 | This is the default file added by | |
bf740959 | 90 | .Nm |
91 | when no other files have been specified. | |
2e73a022 | 92 | .It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa |
93 | Contains the DSA authentication identity of the user. | |
b5e300c2 | 94 | .El |
57112b5a | 95 | .Sh ENVIRONMENT |
96 | .Bl -tag -width Ds | |
97 | .It Ev "DISPLAY" and "SSH_ASKPASS" | |
bf740959 | 98 | If |
99 | .Nm | |
100 | needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from the current | |
4fe2af09 | 101 | terminal if it was run from a terminal. |
102 | If | |
bf740959 | 103 | .Nm |
104 | does not have a terminal associated with it but | |
105 | .Ev DISPLAY | |
aa3378df | 106 | and |
107 | .Ev SSH_ASKPASS | |
108 | are set, it will execute the program specified by | |
109 | .Ev SSH_ASKPASS | |
4fe2af09 | 110 | and open an X11 window to read the passphrase. |
111 | This is particularly useful when calling | |
bf740959 | 112 | .Nm |
113 | from a | |
114 | .Pa .Xsession | |
4fe2af09 | 115 | or related script. |
116 | (Note that on some machines it | |
bf740959 | 117 | may be necessary to redirect the input from |
118 | .Pa /dev/null | |
119 | to make this work.) | |
b5e300c2 | 120 | .El |
fa08c86b | 121 | .Sh AUTHORS |
5fb622e4 | 122 | OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free |
123 | ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen. | |
124 | Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, | |
125 | Theo de Raadt and Dug Song | |
126 | removed many bugs, re-added newer features and | |
127 | created OpenSSH. | |
128 | Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH | |
129 | protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0. | |
bf740959 | 130 | .Sh SEE ALSO |
131 | .Xr ssh 1 , | |
132 | .Xr ssh-agent 1 , | |
133 | .Xr ssh-keygen 1 , | |
f98d56f0 | 134 | .Xr sshd 8 |