| .\" -*- nroff -*- |
| .\" |
| .\" ssh-add.1 |
| .\" |
| .\" Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi> |
| .\" |
| .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland |
| .\" All rights reserved |
| .\" |
| .\" Created: Sat Apr 22 23:55:14 1995 ylo |
| .\" |
| .\" $Id: ssh-add.1,v 1.1.1.1 1999/10/27 03:42:45 damien Exp $ |
| .\" |
| .Dd September 25, 1999 |
| .Dt SSH-ADD 1 |
| .Os |
| .Sh NAME |
| .Nm ssh-add |
| .Nd adds identities for the authentication agent |
| .Sh SYNOPSIS |
| .Nm ssh-add |
| .Op Fl ldD |
| .Op Ar |
| .Sh DESCRIPTION |
| .Nm |
| adds identities to the authentication agent, |
| .Xr ssh-agent 1 . |
| When run without arguments, it adds the file |
| .Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity . |
| Alternative file names can be given on the |
| command line. If any file requires a passphrase, |
| .Nm |
| asks for the passphrase from the user. |
| The Passphrase it is read from the user's tty. |
| .Pp |
| The authentication agent must be running and must be an ancestor of |
| the current process for |
| .Nm |
| to work. |
| .Pp |
| The options are as follows: |
| .Bl -tag -width Ds |
| .It Fl l |
| Lists all identities currently represented by the agent. |
| .It Fl d |
| Instead of adding the identity, removes the identity from the agent. |
| .It Fl D |
| Deletes all identities from the agent. |
| .El |
| .Sh FILES |
| .Bl -tag -width Ds |
| .Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity |
| Contains the RSA authentication identity of the user. This file |
| should not be readable by anyone but the user. |
| Note that |
| .Nm |
| ignores this file if it is accessible by others. |
| It is possible to |
| specify a passphrase when generating the key; that passphrase will be |
| used to encrypt the private part of this file. This is the |
| default file added by |
| .Nm |
| when no other files have been specified. |
| .Pp |
| If |
| .Nm |
| needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from the current |
| terminal if it was run from a terminal. If |
| .Nm |
| does not have a terminal associated with it but |
| .Ev DISPLAY |
| is set, it |
| will open an X11 window to read the passphrase. This is particularly |
| useful when calling |
| .Nm |
| from a |
| .Pa .Xsession |
| or related script. (Note that on some machines it |
| may be necessary to redirect the input from |
| .Pa /dev/null |
| to make this work.) |
| .Sh AUTHOR |
| Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi> |
| .Pp |
| OpenSSH |
| is a derivative of the original (free) ssh 1.2.12 release, but with bugs |
| removed and newer features re-added. Rapidly after the 1.2.12 release, |
| newer versions bore successively more restrictive licenses. This version |
| of OpenSSH |
| .Bl -bullet |
| .It |
| has all components of a restrictive nature (ie. patents, see |
| .Xr ssl 8 ) |
| directly removed from the source code; any licensed or patented components |
| are chosen from |
| external libraries. |
| .It |
| has been updated to support ssh protocol 1.5. |
| .It |
| contains added support for |
| .Xr kerberos 8 |
| authentication and ticket passing. |
| .It |
| supports one-time password authentication with |
| .Xr skey 1 . |
| .El |
| .Pp |
| The libraries described in |
| .Xr ssl 8 |
| are required for proper operation. |
| .Sh SEE ALSO |
| .Xr ssh 1 , |
| .Xr ssh-agent 1 , |
| .Xr ssh-keygen 1 , |
| .Xr sshd 8 , |
| .Xr ssl 8 |
