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Ben Lindstrom12de6162001-04-10 02:46:54 +0000[diff] [blame^]1.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-add.1,v 1.23 2001/04/09 15:19:49 markus Exp $
Ben Lindstrom36579d32001-01-29 07:39:26 +0000[diff] [blame]2.\"
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]3.\" -*- nroff -*-
4.\"
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]5.\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]6.\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
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40.Dd September 25, 1999
41.Dt SSH-ADD 1
42.Os
43.Sh NAME
44.Nm ssh-add
Damien Millerad833b32000-08-23 10:46:23 +1000[diff] [blame]45.Nd adds RSA or DSA identities for the authentication agent
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]46.Sh SYNOPSIS
47.Nm ssh-add
Damien Miller10f6f6b1999-11-17 17:29:08 +1100[diff] [blame]48.Op Fl lLdD
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]49.Op Ar
Damien Miller22c77262000-04-13 12:26:34 +1000[diff] [blame]50.Sh DESCRIPTION
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]51.Nm
Damien Millerad833b32000-08-23 10:46:23 +1000[diff] [blame]52adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent,
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]53.Xr ssh-agent 1 .
54When run without arguments, it adds the file
55.Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity .
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]56Alternative file names can be given on the command line.
57If any file requires a passphrase,
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]58.Nm
Damien Miller22c77262000-04-13 12:26:34 +1000[diff] [blame]59asks for the passphrase from the user.
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]60The Passphrase it is read from the user's tty.
Ben Lindstrom12de6162001-04-10 02:46:54 +0000[diff] [blame^]61.Nm
62retries the last passphrase if multiple identity files are given.
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]63.Pp
64The authentication agent must be running and must be an ancestor of
65the current process for
66.Nm
67to work.
68.Pp
69The options are as follows:
70.Bl -tag -width Ds
71.It Fl l
Damien Miller10f6f6b1999-11-17 17:29:08 +1100[diff] [blame]72Lists fingerprints of all identities currently represented by the agent.
73.It Fl L
74Lists public key parameters of all identities currently represented by the agent.
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]75.It Fl d
76Instead of adding the identity, removes the identity from the agent.
77.It Fl D
78Deletes all identities from the agent.
79.El
80.Sh FILES
81.Bl -tag -width Ds
Damien Milleraae6c611999-12-06 11:47:28 +1100[diff] [blame]82.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]83Contains the RSA authentication identity of the user.
84This file should not be readable by anyone but the user.
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]85Note that
86.Nm
87ignores this file if it is accessible by others.
88It is possible to
89specify a passphrase when generating the key; that passphrase will be
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]90used to encrypt the private part of this file.
91This is the default file added by
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]92.Nm
93when no other files have been specified.
Damien Millerad833b32000-08-23 10:46:23 +1000[diff] [blame]94.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa
95Contains the DSA authentication identity of the user.
Damien Miller7b28dc52000-09-05 13:34:53 +1100[diff] [blame]96.El
Damien Milleraae6c611999-12-06 11:47:28 +1100[diff] [blame]97.Sh ENVIRONMENT
98.Bl -tag -width Ds
99.It Ev "DISPLAY" and "SSH_ASKPASS"
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]100If
101.Nm
102needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from the current
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]103terminal if it was run from a terminal.
104If
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]105.Nm
106does not have a terminal associated with it but
107.Ev DISPLAY
Damien Miller5428f641999-11-25 11:54:57 +1100[diff] [blame]108and
109.Ev SSH_ASKPASS
110are set, it will execute the program specified by
111.Ev SSH_ASKPASS
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]112and open an X11 window to read the passphrase.
113This is particularly useful when calling
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]114.Nm
115from a
116.Pa .Xsession
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]117or related script.
118(Note that on some machines it
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]119may be necessary to redirect the input from
120.Pa /dev/null
121to make this work.)
Damien Miller7b28dc52000-09-05 13:34:53 +1100[diff] [blame]122.El
Damien Miller0bc1bd82000-11-13 22:57:25 +1100[diff] [blame]123.Sh AUTHORS
Ben Lindstrom035782e2001-01-29 08:34:16 +0000[diff] [blame]124OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free
125ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen.
126Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos,
127Theo de Raadt and Dug Song
128removed many bugs, re-added newer features and
129created OpenSSH.
130Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH
131protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0.
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]132.Sh SEE ALSO
133.Xr ssh 1 ,
134.Xr ssh-agent 1 ,
135.Xr ssh-keygen 1 ,
Ben Lindstrome5b3fb32001-02-10 23:56:35 +0000[diff] [blame]136.Xr sshd 8