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Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]1.\" -*- nroff -*-
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Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]3.\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
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38.Dd September 25, 1999
39.Dt SSH-ADD 1
40.Os
41.Sh NAME
42.Nm ssh-add
Damien Millerad833b32000-08-23 10:46:23 +1000[diff] [blame]43.Nd adds RSA or DSA identities for the authentication agent
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]44.Sh SYNOPSIS
45.Nm ssh-add
Damien Miller10f6f6b1999-11-17 17:29:08 +1100[diff] [blame]46.Op Fl lLdD
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]47.Op Ar
Damien Miller22c77262000-04-13 12:26:34 +1000[diff] [blame]48.Sh DESCRIPTION
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]49.Nm
Damien Millerad833b32000-08-23 10:46:23 +1000[diff] [blame]50adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent,
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]51.Xr ssh-agent 1 .
52When run without arguments, it adds the file
53.Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity .
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]54Alternative file names can be given on the command line.
55If any file requires a passphrase,
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]56.Nm
Damien Miller22c77262000-04-13 12:26:34 +1000[diff] [blame]57asks for the passphrase from the user.
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]58The Passphrase it is read from the user's tty.
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]59.Pp
60The authentication agent must be running and must be an ancestor of
61the current process for
62.Nm
63to work.
64.Pp
65The options are as follows:
66.Bl -tag -width Ds
67.It Fl l
Damien Miller10f6f6b1999-11-17 17:29:08 +1100[diff] [blame]68Lists fingerprints of all identities currently represented by the agent.
69.It Fl L
70Lists public key parameters of all identities currently represented by the agent.
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]71.It Fl d
72Instead of adding the identity, removes the identity from the agent.
73.It Fl D
74Deletes all identities from the agent.
75.El
76.Sh FILES
77.Bl -tag -width Ds
Damien Milleraae6c611999-12-06 11:47:28 +1100[diff] [blame]78.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]79Contains the RSA authentication identity of the user.
80This file should not be readable by anyone but the user.
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]81Note that
82.Nm
83ignores this file if it is accessible by others.
84It is possible to
85specify a passphrase when generating the key; that passphrase will be
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]86used to encrypt the private part of this file.
87This is the default file added by
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]88.Nm
89when no other files have been specified.
Damien Millerad833b32000-08-23 10:46:23 +1000[diff] [blame]90.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa
91Contains the DSA authentication identity of the user.
Damien Miller7b28dc52000-09-05 13:34:53 +1100[diff] [blame]92.El
Damien Milleraae6c611999-12-06 11:47:28 +1100[diff] [blame]93.Sh ENVIRONMENT
94.Bl -tag -width Ds
95.It Ev "DISPLAY" and "SSH_ASKPASS"
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]96If
97.Nm
98needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from the current
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]99terminal if it was run from a terminal.
100If
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]101.Nm
102does not have a terminal associated with it but
103.Ev DISPLAY
Damien Miller5428f641999-11-25 11:54:57 +1100[diff] [blame]104and
105.Ev SSH_ASKPASS
106are set, it will execute the program specified by
107.Ev SSH_ASKPASS
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]108and open an X11 window to read the passphrase.
109This is particularly useful when calling
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]110.Nm
111from a
112.Pa .Xsession
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]113or related script.
114(Note that on some machines it
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]115may be necessary to redirect the input from
116.Pa /dev/null
117to make this work.)
Damien Miller7b28dc52000-09-05 13:34:53 +1100[diff] [blame]118.El
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]119.Sh AUTHOR
120Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
121.Pp
122OpenSSH
123is a derivative of the original (free) ssh 1.2.12 release, but with bugs
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]124removed and newer features re-added.
125Rapidly after the 1.2.12 release,
126newer versions bore successively more restrictive licenses.
127This version of OpenSSH
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]128.Bl -bullet
129.It
Damien Millere4340be2000-09-16 13:29:08 +1100[diff] [blame]130has all components of a restrictive nature (i.e., patents, see
131.Xr crypto 3 )
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]132directly removed from the source code; any licensed or patented components
133are chosen from
134external libraries.
135.It
136has been updated to support ssh protocol 1.5.
137.It
Damien Miller22c77262000-04-13 12:26:34 +1000[diff] [blame]138contains added support for
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]139.Xr kerberos 8
140authentication and ticket passing.
141.It
142supports one-time password authentication with
143.Xr skey 1 .
144.El
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]145.Sh SEE ALSO
146.Xr ssh 1 ,
147.Xr ssh-agent 1 ,
148.Xr ssh-keygen 1 ,
149.Xr sshd 8 ,
Damien Millere4340be2000-09-16 13:29:08 +1100[diff] [blame]150.Xr crypto 3