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.IX Title "SSH-KEYMAN 1"
.TH SSH-KEYMAN 1 "perl v5.6.1" "2002-05-07" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
.UC
.SH "NAME"
\&\fBssh-keyman\fR \- authentication key agent management
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
\&\fBssh-keyman\fR 
[\fB\-q\fR] 
[\fB\-c\fR] 
[\fB\-k\fR]
[\fB\-s\fR]
[\fB\-e\fR] 
[\fB\-d\fR]
[\fB\-a\fR]
[\fB\-l\fR]
[\fIkeyfile\fR ...]
.PP
\&\fBssh-keyman\fR 
\&\fB\-h\fR
\&\fB\-v\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
\&\fBssh-keyman\fR is a frontend to the \fBssh-agent\fR and \fBssh-add\fR commands
for managing a long-running \fBssh-agent\fR process. The idea is that
a single \fBssh-agent\fR process is kept persistently running across
multiple user login sessions in order to prevent the startup of multiple
\&\fBssh-agent\fR processes and to avoid having to enter pass-phrases more
often than really necessary from a security point of view.
.PP
The command line options can be combined and are executed internally in
the given order below.
.Ip "\fB\-q\fR, \fB\*(--quiet\fR" 4
.IX Item "-q, quiet"
Quiet operation. Do not print verbose messages.
.Ip "\fB\-c\fR, \fB\*(--cluster\fR" 4
.IX Item "-c, cluster"
Cluster indicator. This forces the use of
\&\fB$HOME/.ssh/agent-\fR\fIhostname\fR as the agent attachment informations
file instead of the default \fB$HOME/.ssh/agent\fR. Use this if your home
directory is NFS-mounted on a cluster of desktops.
.Ip "\fB\-k\fR, \fB\*(--kill\fR" 4
.IX Item "-k, kill"
Kill agent. This makes sure the \fBssh-agent\fR process
is no longer running.
.Ip "\fB\-s\fR, \fB\*(--start\fR" 4
.IX Item "-s, start"
Start agent. This makes sure the \fBssh-agent\fR process is
running. If not, it automatically spawns a new one.
.Ip "\fB\-e\fR, \fB\*(--env\fR" 4
.IX Item "-e, env"
Environment setup. This outputs to \fIstdout\fR the Bourne-Shell commands
necessary to attach the current shell session to the \fBssh-agent\fR
process. The intended usage is "\f(CW\*(C`eval `\f(CBssh-keyman\f(CW \-q \-e \-s`\*(C'\fR" from
within \fB$HOME/.xsession\fR or \fB$HOME/.bash_login\fR scripts.
.Ip "\fB\-d\fR, \fB\*(--delete\fR" 4
.IX Item "-d, delete"
Delete key. This deletes one or more (or all if not \fIkeyfile\fR arguments
are specified at all) from the \fBssh-agent\fR process.
.Ip "\fB\-a\fR, \fB\*(--add\fR" 4
.IX Item "-a, add"
Add key. This adds one or more keys (in \fIkeyfile\fR) to the \fBssh-agent\fR
process. If a key is already loaded, it is skipped and not reloaded.
Additionally, all specified keys are loaded with a single \fBssh-add\fR
call. This way the pass-phrase dialog is reduced to its possible
minimum.
.Ip "\fB\-l\fR, \fB\*(--list\fR" 4
.IX Item "-l, list"
List keys. This lists the currently available keys in the \fBssh-agent\fR
process.
.Ip "\fB\-h\fR, \fB\*(--help\fR" 4
.IX Item "-h, help"
Help information. Display a usage summary on \fIstdout\fR.
.Ip "\fB\-v\fR, \fB\*(--version\fR" 4
.IX Item "-v, version"
Version information. Display a version summary on \fIstdout\fR.
.SH "EXAMPLE"
.IX Header "EXAMPLE"
\&\fI.xsession\fR:
.PP
.Vb 5
\& eval `ssh-keyman -q -s -e`
\& ssh-keyman -q -a </dev/null \e
\&     ~/.ssh/id_rsa_1 \e
\&     ~/.ssh/id_rsa_2 \e
\&     ~/.ssh/id_rsa_3
.Ve
\&\fI.bash_login\fR:
.PP
.Vb 1
\& eval `ssh-keyman -q -s -e`
.Ve
.SH "FILES"
.IX Header "FILES"
.Ip "\fB$HOME/.ssh/agent\fR" 4
.IX Item "$HOME/.ssh/agent"
The generated shell script for attaching the current shell
session (and all of its sub-processes) to the \fBssh-agent\fR process.
At any time this can be directly sourced from within the shell session
or indirectly through the \fBssh-keyman\fR \fB\-e\fR option.
This file is used if the cluster option \fB\-c\fR is not used.
.Ip "\fB$HOME/.ssh/agent-\fR\fIhostname\fR" 4
.IX Item "$HOME/.ssh/agent-hostname"
The generated shell script for attaching the current shell
session (and all of its sub-processes) to the \fBssh-agent\fR process.
At any time this can be directly sourced from within the shell session
or indirectly through the \fBssh-keyman\fR \fB\-e\fR option.
This file is used if the cluster option \fB\-c\fR is used.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
\&\fBssh-agent\fR(1), \fBssh-add\fR(1).
.SH "HISTORY"
.IX Header "HISTORY"
\&\fBssh-keyman\fR was written in May 2002 by Ralf S. Engelschall
<rse@engelschall.com>. It was inspired by the similar program
\&\fBkeychain\fR from Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>. The main
difference between \fBkeychain\fR and \fBssh-keyman\fR is that \fBssh-keyman\fR
uses a more orthogonal interface which even allows you to combine
multiple actions into a single call.