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SSH-ADD(1) BSD General Commands Manual SSH-ADD(1) NAME ssh-add -- adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent SYNOPSIS ssh-add [-cDdLlXx] [-t life] [file ...] ssh-add -s reader ssh-add -e reader DESCRIPTION ssh-add adds RSA or DSA identities to the authentication agent, ssh-agent(1). When run without arguments, it adds the files ~/.ssh/id_rsa, ~/.ssh/id_dsa and ~/.ssh/identity. Alternative file names can be given on the command line. If any file requires a passphrase, ssh-add asks for the passphrase from the user. The passphrase is read from the user's tty. ssh-add retries the last passphrase if multiple identity files are given. The authentication agent must be running and the SSH_AUTH_SOCK environ- ment variable must contain the name of its socket for ssh-add to work. The options are as follows: -c Indicates that added identities should be subject to confirmation before being used for authentication. Confirmation is performed by the SSH_ASKPASS program mentioned below. Successful confirma- tion is signaled by a zero exit status from the SSH_ASKPASS pro- gram, rather than text entered into the requester. -D Deletes all identities from the agent. -d Instead of adding the identity, removes the identity from the agent. -e reader Remove key in smartcard reader. -L Lists public key parameters of all identities currently repre- sented by the agent. -l Lists fingerprints of all identities currently represented by the agent. -s reader Add key in smartcard reader. -t life Set a maximum lifetime when adding identities to an agent. The lifetime may be specified in seconds or in a time format speci- fied in sshd_config(5). -X Unlock the agent. -x Lock the agent with a password. ENVIRONMENT DISPLAY and SSH_ASKPASS If ssh-add needs a passphrase, it will read the passphrase from the current terminal if it was run from a terminal. If ssh-add does not have a terminal associated with it but DISPLAY and SSH_ASKPASS are set, it will execute the program specified by SSH_ASKPASS and open an X11 window to read the passphrase. This is particularly useful when calling ssh-add from a .xsession or related script. (Note that on some machines it may be necessary to redirect the input from /dev/null to make this work.) SSH_AUTH_SOCK Identifies the path of a unix-domain socket used to communicate with the agent. FILES ~/.ssh/identity Contains the protocol version 1 RSA authentication identity of the user. ~/.ssh/id_dsa Contains the protocol version 2 DSA authentication identity of the user. ~/.ssh/id_rsa Contains the protocol version 2 RSA authentication identity of the user. Identity files should not be readable by anyone but the user. Note that ssh-add ignores identity files if they are accessible by others. DIAGNOSTICS Exit status is 0 on success, 1 if the specified command fails, and 2 if ssh-add is unable to contact the authentication agent. SEE ALSO ssh(1), ssh-agent(1), ssh-keygen(1), sshd(8) AUTHORS OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen. Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt and Dug Song removed many bugs, re-added newer features and cre- ated OpenSSH. Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0. BSD September 25, 1999 BSD
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