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Diff for /src/usr.bin/ssh/ssh-agent.1 between version 1.28 and 1.28.2.1

version 1.28, 2001/09/05 06:23:07

version 1.28.2.1, 2002/03/07 17:37:47

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.Xr ssh-add 1 .

When executed without arguments,

.Xr ssh-add 1

adds the

adds the files

.Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity

.Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa ,

file.

.Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa

and

.Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity .

If the identity has a passphrase,

.Xr ssh-add 1

asks for the passphrase (using a small X11 application if running

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.Xr ssh 1

looks at these variables and uses them to establish a connection to the agent.

.Pp

The agent will never send a private key over its request channel.

Instead, operations that require a private key will be performed

by the agent, and the result will be returned to the requester.

This way, private keys are not exposed to clients using the agent.

.Pp

A unix-domain socket is created

.Pq Pa /tmp/ssh-XXXXXXXX/agent.<pid> ,

and the name of this socket is stored in the

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.Bl -tag -width Ds

.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/identity

Contains the protocol version 1 RSA authentication identity of the user.

This file should not be readable by anyone but the user.

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 file is not used by

.Nm

but is normally added to the agent using

.Xr ssh-add 1

at login time.

.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa

Contains the protocol version 2 DSA authentication identity of the user.

.It Pa $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa