5 .\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
7 .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
8 .\" All rights reserved
10 .\" Created: Sat Apr 22 23:55:14 1995 ylo
14 .Dd September 25, 1999
19 .Nd adds identities for the authentication agent
26 adds identities to the authentication agent,
28 When run without arguments, it adds the file
29 .Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity .
30 Alternative file names can be given on the
31 command line. If any file requires a passphrase,
33 asks for the passphrase from the user.
34 The Passphrase it is read from the user's tty.
36 The authentication agent must be running and must be an ancestor of
37 the current process for
41 The options are as follows:
44 Lists all identities currently represented by the agent.
46 Instead of adding the identity, removes the identity from the agent.
48 Deletes all identities from the agent.
52 .Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity
53 Contains the RSA authentication identity of the user. This file
54 should not be readable by anyone but the user.
57 ignores this file if it is accessible by others.
59 specify a passphrase when generating the key; that passphrase will be
60 used to encrypt the private part of this file. This is the
63 when no other files have been specified.
67 needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from the current
68 terminal if it was run from a terminal. If
70 does not have a terminal associated with it but
73 will open an X11 window to read the passphrase. This is particularly
78 or related script. (Note that on some machines it
79 may be necessary to redirect the input from
83 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
86 is a derivative of the original (free) ssh 1.2.12 release, but with bugs
87 removed and newer features re-added. Rapidly after the 1.2.12 release,
88 newer versions bore successively more restrictive licenses. This version
92 has all components of a restrictive nature (ie. patents, see
94 directly removed from the source code; any licensed or patented components
98 has been updated to support ssh protocol 1.5.
100 contains added support for
102 authentication and ticket passing.
104 supports one-time password authentication with
108 The libraries described in
110 are required for proper operation.