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40 .Dd $Mdocdate: September 4 2010 $
45 .Nd adds private key identities to the authentication agent
57 adds private key identities to the authentication agent,
59 When run without arguments, it adds the files
65 After loading a private key,
67 will try to load corresponding certificate information from the
68 filename obtained by appending
70 to the name of the private key file.
71 Alternative file names can be given on the command line.
73 If any file requires a passphrase,
75 asks for the passphrase from the user.
76 The passphrase is read from the user's tty.
78 retries the last passphrase if multiple identity files are given.
80 The authentication agent must be running and the
82 environment variable must contain the name of its socket for
86 The options are as follows:
89 Indicates that added identities should be subject to confirmation before
90 being used for authentication.
91 Confirmation is performed by the
93 program mentioned below.
94 Successful confirmation is signaled by a zero exit status from the
96 program, rather than text entered into the requester.
98 Deletes all identities from the agent.
100 Instead of adding identities, removes identities from the agent.
103 has been run without arguments, the keys for the default identities will
105 Otherwise, the argument list will be interpreted as a list of paths to
106 public key files and matching keys will be removed from the agent.
107 If no public key is found at a given path,
113 Remove keys provided by the PKCS#11 shared library
116 Lists public key parameters of all identities currently represented
119 Lists fingerprints of all identities currently represented by the agent.
121 Add keys provided by the PKCS#11 shared library
124 Set a maximum lifetime when adding identities to an agent.
125 The lifetime may be specified in seconds or in a time format
131 Lock the agent with a password.
135 .It Ev "DISPLAY" and "SSH_ASKPASS"
138 needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from the current
139 terminal if it was run from a terminal.
142 does not have a terminal associated with it but
146 are set, it will execute the program specified by
148 and open an X11 window to read the passphrase.
149 This is particularly useful when calling
154 (Note that on some machines it
155 may be necessary to redirect the input from
159 Identifies the path of a
161 socket used to communicate with the agent.
165 .It Pa ~/.ssh/identity
166 Contains the protocol version 1 RSA authentication identity of the user.
168 Contains the protocol version 2 DSA authentication identity of the user.
169 .It Pa ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa
170 Contains the protocol version 2 ECDSA authentication identity of the user.
172 Contains the protocol version 2 RSA authentication identity of the user.
175 Identity files should not be readable by anyone but the user.
178 ignores identity files if they are accessible by others.
180 Exit status is 0 on success, 1 if the specified command fails,
183 is unable to contact the authentication agent.
190 OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free
191 ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen.
192 Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos,
193 Theo de Raadt and Dug Song
194 removed many bugs, re-added newer features and
196 Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH
197 protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0.