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Damien Millerab57f352002-02-05 12:26:58 +1100[diff] [blame]1.\" $OpenBSD: ssh-add.1,v 1.30 2002/02/04 20:41:16 stevesk 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
Ben Lindstrom8d066fb2001-09-12 17:06:13 +0000[diff] [blame]45.Nd adds RSA or DSA identities to 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
Ben Lindstrome6901212001-08-06 22:03:08 +0000[diff] [blame]50.Nm ssh-add
51.Fl s Ar reader
52.Nm ssh-add
53.Fl e Ar reader
Damien Miller22c77262000-04-13 12:26:34 +1000[diff] [blame]54.Sh DESCRIPTION
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]55.Nm
Damien Millerad833b32000-08-23 10:46:23 +1000[diff] [blame]56adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent,
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]57.Xr ssh-agent 1 .
Damien Miller6e1057c2002-01-22 23:05:59 +1100[diff] [blame]58When run without arguments, it adds the files
59.Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa ,
60.Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa
61and
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]62.Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity .
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]63Alternative file names can be given on the command line.
64If any file requires a passphrase,
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]65.Nm
Damien Miller22c77262000-04-13 12:26:34 +1000[diff] [blame]66asks for the passphrase from the user.
Ben Lindstromaafff9c2001-05-06 03:01:02 +0000[diff] [blame]67The passphrase is read from the user's tty.
Ben Lindstrom12de6162001-04-10 02:46:54 +0000[diff] [blame]68.Nm
69retries the last passphrase if multiple identity files are given.
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]70.Pp
71The authentication agent must be running and must be an ancestor of
72the current process for
73.Nm
74to work.
75.Pp
76The options are as follows:
77.Bl -tag -width Ds
78.It Fl l
Damien Miller10f6f6b1999-11-17 17:29:08 +1100[diff] [blame]79Lists fingerprints of all identities currently represented by the agent.
80.It Fl L
81Lists public key parameters of all identities currently represented by the agent.
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]82.It Fl d
83Instead of adding the identity, removes the identity from the agent.
84.It Fl D
85Deletes all identities from the agent.
Ben Lindstrome6901212001-08-06 22:03:08 +0000[diff] [blame]86.It Fl s Ar reader
87Add key in smartcard
88.Ar reader .
89.It Fl e Ar reader
90Remove key in smartcard
91.Ar reader .
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]92.El
93.Sh FILES
94.Bl -tag -width Ds
Damien Milleraae6c611999-12-06 11:47:28 +1100[diff] [blame]95.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity
Ben Lindstrom18a82ac2001-04-11 15:59:35 +0000[diff] [blame]96Contains the protocol version 1 RSA authentication identity of the user.
Damien Millerad833b32000-08-23 10:46:23 +1000[diff] [blame]97.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa
Ben Lindstrom18a82ac2001-04-11 15:59:35 +0000[diff] [blame]98Contains the protocol version 2 DSA authentication identity of the user.
99.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa
100Contains the protocol version 2 RSA authentication identity of the user.
Damien Miller7b28dc52000-09-05 13:34:53 +1100[diff] [blame]101.El
Damien Millerab57f352002-02-05 12:26:58 +1100[diff] [blame]102.Pp
103Identity files should not be readable by anyone but the user.
104Note that
105.Nm
106ignores identity files if they are accessible by others.
Damien Milleraae6c611999-12-06 11:47:28 +1100[diff] [blame]107.Sh ENVIRONMENT
108.Bl -tag -width Ds
109.It Ev "DISPLAY" and "SSH_ASKPASS"
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]110If
111.Nm
112needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from the current
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]113terminal if it was run from a terminal.
114If
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]115.Nm
116does not have a terminal associated with it but
117.Ev DISPLAY
Damien Miller5428f641999-11-25 11:54:57 +1100[diff] [blame]118and
119.Ev SSH_ASKPASS
120are set, it will execute the program specified by
121.Ev SSH_ASKPASS
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]122and open an X11 window to read the passphrase.
123This is particularly useful when calling
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]124.Nm
125from a
126.Pa .Xsession
Damien Miller450a7a12000-03-26 13:04:51 +1000[diff] [blame]127or related script.
128(Note that on some machines it
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]129may be necessary to redirect the input from
130.Pa /dev/null
131to make this work.)
Damien Miller7b28dc52000-09-05 13:34:53 +1100[diff] [blame]132.El
Damien Millerc313be22002-02-05 12:14:41 +1100[diff] [blame]133.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
134Exit status is 0 on success, 1 if the specified command fails,
135and 2 if
136.Nm
137is unable to contact the authentication agent.
Damien Miller0bc1bd82000-11-13 22:57:25 +1100[diff] [blame]138.Sh AUTHORS
Ben Lindstrom035782e2001-01-29 08:34:16 +0000[diff] [blame]139OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free
140ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen.
141Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos,
142Theo de Raadt and Dug Song
143removed many bugs, re-added newer features and
144created OpenSSH.
145Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH
146protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0.
Damien Miller32aa1441999-10-29 09:15:49 +1000[diff] [blame]147.Sh SEE ALSO
148.Xr ssh 1 ,
149.Xr ssh-agent 1 ,
150.Xr ssh-keygen 1 ,
Ben Lindstrome5b3fb32001-02-10 23:56:35 +0000[diff] [blame]151.Xr sshd 8